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Pepper X scorches South Carolina pepper expert's Guinness Book heat record
Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper expert, has broken his own world record with a pepper that's three times hotter. Pepper X was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world on Oct. 9 by the Guinness Book of World Records.