10 Everyday Historical Foods That Would Instantly Kill You Today
24K views · Sep 26, 2026 · Entertainment
Comments · 32
@vectorwolf · 2 days ago
Remember, kids. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's good for you.
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@duchovny2 · 3 days ago
Avoid anything sold as a “health tonic”
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@stephaniesadie832 · 3 days ago
Maria Curia used to walk around with a pellet of Polunium 229 in her Lab coat. After she died it was discovered her Lab Coat, and all her laboratory notebooks, were so radioactive they are stored in a lead lined box, and are still so radioactive they could be classed as medium level nuclear waste.
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@elizabethmulgrew7873 · 2 days ago
During the 1800s doctors would give you a big ass pill called "Blue Mass". It was pure mercury.
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@elizabethmulgrew7873 · 2 days ago
Re Salem - in their journals residents recorded that the cattle and dogs were acting bizarrely also, thus proving that the cause was not of human origin, i.e. mass hallucinations or hysteria or the like.
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@paulinarapicka · 3 days ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yVRKy15CI&t=433">7:13</a> The name is Maria Składowska-Curie, she was Polish ;)
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@lancerevell5979 · 2 days ago
None of these kills instantly. 🤨
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@JACK-i7c6e · 2 days ago
LED NOT LEED!
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@kelblueskies3937 · 4 days ago
Lead, the mineral not lead to show some way the way. AI can't understand the differences in how to pronounce.
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@Johnathan-t1j · 1 day ago
Gumbo file is made from sassafras 👀
@PG_thebeast · 3 days ago
❤
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@elizabethmulgrew7873 · 2 days ago
Why can't you narrate your own video? I mean - seriously!
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