"You should come tell him about horrifying poisons, I bet he would"-- he reconsiders-- "I bet he would think they are horrifying and not cool. But he's wrong."

"I know some non-horrifying facts. ... Some facts I think are non-horrifying."

"Tell me! Tell me the non-horrifying facts!"

"There were some small towns in America where people kept getting heart conditions, and it turned out it was because they had accidentally left the cow thyroids in their burgers."

"How do you leave cow thyroids in a burger?"

"They stopped completely draining the cows of blood, so their thyroids didn't stand out as much. And they also stopped selling the thyroids to pharmaceutical companies."

"I bet they could sell it to traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Cow thyroids sound right up their alley."

"You'd have to be careful, because thyroids actually... Do things." (Sorry Mr Xiao.)

"But at least they're not endangered!"

"That's true."

"What happens if you eat cow thyroids?"

"I think your heart beats too fast and you lose weight and are nervous and angry all the time?"

"I wonder if anyone has tried that as a diet."

"--Someone probably has."

"That's horrifying."

"--I don't think I know any non-horrifying facts, actually."

"Si-mei you are my favorite person."

"Because I know horrifying things?"

"Yeah!"

... This is so not how she is used to social interactions working. "Okay. You're pretty cool, too!"

"Is it terribly rude if I demand that you tell me more facts while we're working?"

"I can give it a go."

Then he will LISTEN AVIDLY TO FACTS.

She knows facts! Mostly about ways to die or what happens after you die, with a smattering of non-fatal medical and forensic things.

Those are amazing facts! Especially the gross ones.