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TIL that Fat Choy is an edible cyanobacteria that grows in the Gobi desert. Despite being expensive, having no nutritional value, and having dementia-causing toxins, its been overharvested to the point of causing erosion and desertification due to its name being a Cantonese pun for "strike it rich" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_choy https://redd.it/1vduuti @r_youshouldknow