Good news for all pepper masochists lovers, there is a new “world’s hottest” pepper to try. That honor used to be held by the Red Savina, a habanero cultivar. (This was the pepper responsible for almost killing Kevin and Dave Clark.) But scientists at New Mexico State University have recently announced that the Bhut Jolokia pepper from Assam is twice as hot.

(It seems to me that Australia is missing a trick here. It has the world’s most deadly spiders, snakes, jellyfish, sharks and so on. What’s up with the plant life?)