Group one metals like sodium are spicy when they touch water. The further down the column you go, the more explosive it can be.

Yeah, there’s a reason that story lives rent free in my head 30 years later lol. Totally horrific, and also totally something I would do.

When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates went to the hospital because of those things. She was picking them out of her dog’s fur and putting them in a cup.

Unfortunately, her cup of water was right next to it, and she swallowed a bunch of these bastards instead of a nice sip of water.