12 Foods You Didn't Know Could Kill You

You would need 130 teaspoons of chili pepper to go to Heaven. But your body will probably say "No" because chilis are so hot and spicy. "Theoretically, one could eat enough really hot chiles to kill you," he says. "A research study in 1980 calculated that three pounds of extreme chilies in powder form — of something like the Bhut Jolokia — eaten all at once could kill a 150-pound person."