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TIL that when Mozart died unexpectedly at age 35, rumors began circulating that he was poisoned by his colleague Antonio Salieri. Though proven untrue, the accusations and public belief contributed to nervous breakdowns later in Salieri’s life.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL Winston Churchill was rather fond of chemical warfare: “I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas… I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum.”

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 11:06 am

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TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 9:57 pm

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TIL Dr. James Parkinson, whose study of ‘The Shaking Palsy’ resulted in it being named after him, narrowly avoided being dispatched to Australia in irons after being accused of plotting to shoot King George III with a poisoned dart

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 7:27 pm

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TIL mathematician Kurt Godel starved himself to death for fear of being poisoned

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 9:42 pm

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TIL that the U.S. government once poisoned all of the alcohol being sold in order to stop people from drinking alcohol, and this resulted in a lot of deaths.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 11:50 am

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TIL that the United States poisoned alcoholic beverages during Prohibition, killing an estimated 10,000 people overall.

by whatilearned April 12, 2022, 12:43 am

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TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn’s campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.

by whatilearned March 27, 2022, 1:19 pm

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TIL the Death Camas plant is so toxic that there is only one known pollinator. The plant is visited by a specialist mining bee, which can tolerate its toxins – others are fatally poisoned. One plant species name is Toxicoscordion venenosum var. venenosum ≈ toxic bulb poisonous poisonous.

by whatilearned March 16, 2022, 2:05 pm

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I poisoned my wife and her family on New Years with fucking dried beans (Found on r/cooking)

by CopyPastaArchive January 29, 2022, 6:38 am

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TIL that vultures are the most threatened birds in the world (and are ecologically vital). By feasting on poisoned carrion, they end up poisoned themselves.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 6:42 am

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TIL of the Overbury Scandal, where an early 17th century British aristocrat was assasinated by a poisoned enema

by whatilearned December 6, 2021, 1:33 pm

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