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Why scorpion venom costs millions per gallon

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Liquid gold is a cute metaphor until you realize you could buy an entire private island for the price of one gallon of bug juice. Deathstalker scorpion venom rings in at $39 million per gallon because it is incredibly tedious to extract, requiring manual milking of thousands of tiny angry arachnids. The venom contains precious compounds used to map brain tumors, making the horrifying harvest entirely justifiable.

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