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It’s interesting to think that work is a necessity in life and it’s all kinds of annoying and dreadful. Now, food, on the other hand, is also a necessity, but definitely in the top 5 of the best things that life has to offer. Until either reality or the internet hits.
Yes, Reddit has recently been ruining food (but only a little bit) with folks sharing how much of something consumed is lethal. We’re talking about actual foods that, if consumed in excess, would be a lethal dose. Some of these are physically impossible to achieve (no, don’t accept this challenge), but others—let’s just say it’s good to know these things if you really like eating.
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#1
I find it mind blowing that one grape can be enough to kill a dog. What kind of animal can eat s**t but not grapes
Pink kitty 1 year ago
Keep away from cats too!! They can cause kidney failure...
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Back in St. Olaf 1 year ago
Onions can also kill a dog, so can sugar free gum. Most people don't realize this.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago (edited)
Not sure why you were downvoted. The sugar alcohols (sweeteners ending in -tol: sorbitol, maltitol, xylitol etc.) in gum cause blood sugar to crash which can cause seizures, coma and death.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
Rasins are also very toxic to dogs. Obviously since they are grapes.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
My ex's parents would give their dog grapes all the time, and ice cubes. Not sure how that dog stayed alive and well now that I know how toxic grapes are to dogs.
Rosie 1 year ago
When I was young (years ago!) I used to give grapes to my dogs too. Well, 1 grape. They didn't eat it, just nosed it all over the house. The game would last days & only stopped when the grape ended under the fridge or someone stepped on it. Glad I didn't poison the babies my mistake.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
No CORGG for corgis....Chocolate, Onion, Raisins, Grapes, Garlic. You might get lucky once or twice, but it only takes one bad reaction to kill your pet.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago (edited)
I know tortilla chips and green beans don't kill cats, at least in moderate amounts. My weird a*s family cat, Dr. Seuss, LOVED them and always begged for some whenever we were eating them. The same with donuts. Crazy cat. lmao
Martinna Jaap 1 year ago
I love that your cats name is Dr Seuss. That's my 5 year olds favourite author.
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martymcmatrix 1 year ago
And since raisins (and/or similar stuff) are dried grapes, they're deadly poisonous for dogs as well and the killer is NOT potassium, BUT oxalic acid, which is present on an extremely high level and leads to acute kidney failure...🍇 🙅🏽 🐕
Nikole 1 year ago
Yeah, my dad used to give peeled grapes to our dog who lived to be 15. He was a sheppard/collie mix though and not small, so maybe that helped?
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Rebecca O’Donnell 1 year ago
Auntriarch was downvoted for stating that they gave their dog garlic to dissuade fleas. But, that’s what we were told to do by vets before flea collars and other flea deterrents came along.
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#2
When you drive on a highway and there's oncoming trafic in the other lane, you're always just one tiny hand motion (yours or the other driver) away from death.
When you think about it, it's insane that we trust each other to drive fast in opposite directions separated by just a few feet.
Babs Ishkabibble 1 year ago
I've always found it surprising when people are terrified of flying. Driving, statistically speaking, is profoundly more dangerous.
rullyman 1 year ago
This is why I'd rather take the train than drive long distance
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I'm less worried about the "one tiny hand motion" and more about a tyre blowing out or some other mechanical failure. Something that I have NO control over.
BK BigFish 1 year ago
Well, you have NO control over whether the person driving toward you will move their hand or not. Or is drunk or high. Mechanical failure, on the other hand, of the kind that would swerve a car, is incredibly rare.
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Veronica Jean 1 year ago
When you get a criminal justice degree, one of the things you have to do is spend a minimum of a day Watching videos of really, truly horrible realities that you will have to see regularly. I had to spend a day watching endless videos of people caught on security cameras, setting bombs and blowing themselves up. People shooting themselves. People shooting other people. One of the ones that stuck with me was a car weaving into oncoming traffic and getting hit by a truck. It disintegrated. I got the degree but chose not to move forward. The videos haunted me too much and I knew if I continued I would no longer be able to see the good in the world. I didn't have the stomach. At the time I was ashamed. Now I'm glad
Heather Ball 1 year ago
The rules of polite society. We are trusting in members of our communities allllll the time, in so many things. As a frequent pedestrian, I am relying on people to be paying attention to their surroundings and not on their phone or distracted in any small way because "one tiny hand motion" could end me. It's scary and in the US, the divisive rhetoric is making us more paranoid and skeptical of this blind trust. Can't blame us. Anyway - mind your surroundings in all things and especially driving. Your moving vehicle is a loaded gun, just ready for you to make a mistake.
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
Two times I was driving on a freeway and had a driver going the wrong way driving straight toward me. I managed to avoid them, but have wondered what became of the wrong way drivers. I also had it happen in my town, where the main road into town was one way, but drivers were driving at me. Probably drunk or from out of town, but scary because the road is quite narrow, so it was harder to get out of the way.
Anna Briggs 1 year ago
I'm worried that I'm one big sneeze away from crashing. Who can help a sneeze?
#3
A few years back a person got hospitalized because they ate 412 chicken nuggets in one sitting, and of course the top comments were all to the effect of "so 411 is the limit"
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Put nugget in mouth, chew, then swallow? On a more serious note, I assume they were hospitalised not because of poisoning but because the sheer volume damaged their stomach somehow?
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Parmeisan 1 year ago
The other thing that bugs me about that response is that we don't even know 411 is their limit. They might have still died if they stopped at 309 for all we know.
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Wilfredo 1 year ago
Because of that telephone pole sized doobie obviously!
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So, Redditors have recently been weighing in with their favorite “this much of this will kill you” facts in a now viral AskReddit thread. Folks were listing mostly edible things and very ordinary foods, but there was the occasional activity of sorts, like sleeping, driving and even breathing.
Anywho, the post garnered 6,200 upvotes and generated a discussion that included 3,600 comments.
#4
To overdose on Weed you'd have to smoke a telephone pole sized joint in 45 minutes
Hphizzle 1 year ago
The real question is where are you going to get rolling paper the size of a light post?
Tee Rat 1 year ago
Once the scientists became involved in the weed business the strains have become much stronger. Added paranoia and refrigerator sized munchies, but not dëath.
Astro 1 year ago
The one time I greened our, I was left alone on my friend’s lawn. I remember watching her dog run up to me and steal my toque and curl up 5 feet away and start shredding it to pieces in front of me because I was too stoned to move. I was like “f**k you dog!” But it came out more like “fraaaayooodawwww!!” Still love that dog. Still miss that toque.
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I'm so confused about a lot of weed information out there. Apparently since the legalization of weed in my country, more kids are being sent to the hospital for consuming THC candies. Or at least the reports are increasingly making it to the news. The Canadian Centre of Substance Abuse and Addiction states "Don't use cannabis if there's a personal or family history of psychosis. Cannabis should be avoided if you have problems with other substances or if you're pregnant or breastfeeding. Avoid smoking cannabis. Smoking is the most harmful way of using cannabis because it directly affects your lungs." "The most straightforward way to get into trouble with cannabis is by consuming too high a dosage of the main active ingredient, THC." - health.harvard.edu
MellonCollie 1 year ago
I think perhaps the reports are increasingly making it to the news. Also: since it is now legal, I'm guessing the government has the obligation to properly inform the citizens. Otherwise it would be neglectful.
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JayWantsACat 1 year ago
The fact that people, like Snoop Dogg, are still alive kind of proves that you can't really OD on week. lmao
Brian Beduhn 1 year ago (edited)
As with anything, moderation is a concerning variable. I've consumed marijuana in frequencies and quantities over several years so much, that it would throttle the minds and imaginations of medical professionals and their like. I have not suffered any degradation to my inductive or deductive reasoning capabilities or capacities and can, quite well, argue to the contrary. I'm very skilled and quite securely employed and have achieved 'Master' in my field. Consuming cartoonish amounts of weed for over 4 decades has caused me only to learn better/more and act like a 12 year old with a $90K/year job.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
And you, of course, are the best judge of whether you have suffered any degradation, right? Kind of like asking a boozehound if they can drive while drunk.
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#5
Not kill you but if you eat too many bananas (like 40) you won’t be able to come to my place of work because you will set off the radiation monitors.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Radioactive potassium. It depends on where the bananas are grown. On recent volcanic soils - radioactive. On old sedimentary soils - not radioactive.
Steve Nelson 1 year ago
Not so simple. The abundance of the radioactive isotope (40K) is effectively constant everywhere. It depends only on how much total K there is in the bananas.
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Marie Clear 1 year ago
On the up side, you wouldn't stink up the work bathroom. You probably wouldn't stink up any bathroom for weeks. So there's that.
The Chocolate Gecko 1 year ago
For those wondering, technically you’d have to eat ten thousand bananas in ten minutes to die of RADIATION. Then again, the bananas would probably kill you before then
#6
Alcohol. In 5 seconds, if you're standing or walking or driving in the wrong place and someone else is driving after drinking, you can die. In 5 hours, if you drink too much, you can die. In 5 years, if you binge drink, you can die. Or you can drink for five decades and watch every relationship in your life wither until the only one left is with the alcohol.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
In moderation it's lovely though. I rarely drink myself but if I have to go to a family event two glasses of wine definitely softens the slings and arrows.
Jay Scales 1 year ago
Yes, the key is to keep it in its place, where you control it, rather than it controlling you. If you find the amount is creeping up STOP and readjust. It's only your friend in moderation.
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Paul Brown 1 year ago
Alcohol almost ended my life. I became suicidal because I couldn't stop drinking. I finally managed to stop drinking in 2011 and never drank again. Hopefully I'll never drink again.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
You can also be hit by a truck while sitting in your livingroom and die.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Unfortunately, 'too much' is not a specific amount one can explain to a drunk person. But (imho) you can and should take their car keys off them.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I know someone who has beat that so far.5 decades hoping it is soon. Not a nice person.
So, throughout your lifetime, you will consume a lot of things. And that’s not just eating—it’s also things like breathing and absorbing (say, via the skin), among other things. There’s multiple ways things enter your body, is what I’m saying.
And there are a lot of different faculties in your body to process all of it—the good, the bad and the ugly. While you might think eating a banana is healthy and great, it does include a certain amount of toxins that the body should be able to take on as well.
#7
You’ll die faster without sleep than without food
Phoenix 1 year ago
This is true but seems strange because I can function longer without sleep than I can without food.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
I was once awake for three days, 72 hours without sleep. By the end of it, i was barely able to function, definitely hearing voices that weren't there, and on the verge of seeing things that weren't there. When i did get a chance to sleep, i basically passed out for 17 hours. I understand that, after 5 days without sleep, you will probably collapse and die. You CANNOT go without sleep longer than without food.
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SM 1 year ago (edited)
This one is a bit deceiving. Left on your own, most likely you wouldn't be able to go without sleep. In other words, you might think that you have going without sleep, but will "mirco sleep" as in dose off and then wake up without realizing it. This is still very terrible for your health and can cause all kinds of mental problems, but not kill you, at least not in the short term. On the other hand, there have been cases where people have been forced to stay awake and that can kill you, and faster than going without food. But one has to understand that dying of starvation takes a long time. There is no set amount of time, and it depends on the situation, but if you have water, it is believed that you can survive between 2 and 3 months. With no water or food, it is about a week.
Ace 1 year ago (edited)
Not true. The longest experimentally-recorded period without sleep is about 11 days, after which the experiment was stopped, but there was no reason to think that the subjects were on the verge of death. Patients suffering from the very rare condition called Fatal Family Insomnia lose their ability to sleep, with severe health effects, but normally last around 18 months from diagnosis before death occurs from these various effects.
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
Which is why sleep deprivation is so effective as a torture. Can also be a factor in divorce.
Michelle C 1 year ago
If I remember correctly, three days of sleep deprivation manifests psychologically as the equivalent of torture and physiologically as the equivalent of extreme drunkenness. This is why sleep deprivation is apparently popular as a form of torture in warfare. I can’t help but think of the Stanford experiment, either! 🥶
Leah Wilson-Walls 1 year ago
When my sis and I were kids we would stay up extra late on occasion and get really goofy because we were over tired...we would say we were on LOS (lack of sleep) 🤣😭
Shawn NowayJose 1 year ago
What's crazy is the effects leading up to it. You essentially go insane. After 3 days or so you start hallucinating. Mind you this is all but impossible without something keeping you from sleeping. Eventually your body will force the issue, at the very least causing you to micro doze here and there. I've been an insomniac for a long time. I've gotten to the hallucination part before. Fight club nailed how it feels, everything is a copy of a copy.
#8
Oleander plant is just poisonous all the way through. A single leaf will kill a human adult. Very pretty though!
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
I still remember all these years later being warned about oleander from Boy Scouts. It was prevalent where I grew up and where we went camping. And since the stems/branches grow nice and straight it's tempting to use them to cook hot dogs and whatnot. You can't even use them for firewood.
Stephanie Barr 1 year ago
My dad, plant physiologist, told me this story. My son has pica so I make sure none of the plants in my yard are toxic to him.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
there's an urban legend in SA about a family that used them to make a BBQ and all died.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yeah there's an apocryphal story my father told me when I was a kid about someone using an oleander branch to stir the tea leaves in his billy and dying as a result.
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SarahJaina 1 year ago
Deadly, and if you don't die, you can get real sick? I used to live in Palo Alto, where for some stupid reason, there city decided that Oleander would be great Flora and Fauna -it was everywhere! My stupid step-mother gets fed up looking at it taking over our yard, goes out and chops a bunch of it down, comes inside and washes off the tools in the kitchen sink, then just grabs a muffin... She was in the hospital for a week, and my dad lectured me and my brother, but neither of us was dumb enough to be that clueless! Oleander, stay far away!
Dorothea Stovall 1 year ago
Mexican divorce. They mix the water from a few leaves into sweet tea. Bye bye.
C L 1 year ago (edited)
As a kid I remember after being told about not touching them, hoping we wouldn't have a car wreck on those oleander lined highways!
Kate 1 year ago
You can touch them, just don't ingest any part of the plant.
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#9
6 liters of water within in 3 hours will kill you. That's why the kid who could suck up a water bottle in an instant said he could only do it 2 or 3 times a day.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
At my office job, the air was so dry I drank water like I had never had water before. I felt water logged and woozy, but I didn't feel anymore hydrated and my throat was still dry. I was literally rinsing away my saliva.
Red_panda 1 year ago
I had that problem when I went to high elevation and did some physical activity, I was chugging water and didn't feel any less thirsty. I'm not sure if this would help you, but it turns out I needed electrolytes as well. Added some electrolyte powder to my water and was much better.
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Knitting Panda 1 year ago
My neighbor's brother died that way. He was schizophrenic and thought he had been poisoned. He thought he could dilute the poison by drinking water. He drank too much and died. It was an awful day.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Six litres in 3 hours *may* kill you. Might also depend on how pure the water is too. It's definitely going to make you unwell unless you're also pumping in electrolytes. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318619#how-much-is-too-much
Jaya 1 year ago
Water poisoning is dangerous and can be lethal. Your body will usually stop you, you will usually feel too unwell to keep drinking, so it's very rare for it to happen. But there have been cases of people dying, because they were so motivated by outside forces (hazing ritual or contest for instance), that they kept drinking despite their body telling them to stop.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
The last one I heard was girls who'd gone to a rave and taken X (IIRC) and they were told drink lots of water. So they did...
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)
There was a young man in my secondary school who was a victim of this during a hazing. He suffered numerous seizures and a stroke which led to severe brain damage. He survived, but was left with severe brain damage. Hazing is a truly cruel practice and needs to be banned from sports teams and schools. 😢
Robert T 1 year ago
I can't remember just how long it was given over, but when I was on chemo, I would have about 5-6 litres of fluid intravenously over a few hours. The main side effect was needing to pee. A lot!
Clarissa 1 year ago
Iv fluids are electrolyte balanced. Excessive water kills because it completely messes up the electrolyte balance in your body. Too low potassium can cause cardiac arrest, for ex. (Nurse)
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BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I know of a couple people dying this way, and the amount varies depending on the person.
So, the traditional and most known detoxifying faculties in the body are the kidneys and liver, which filter out toxins from the blood and direct into your bladder to be expelled (the kidneys) and change the chemical nature of toxins altogether (the liver).
But there’s also the lesser known detox centers like the lungs, which have a capacity to remove certain gasses, the skin, which keeps water-borne nonsense at bay, and the digestive system, which is capable of eliminating toxic foods through vomit and the runs.
#10
Two things you learn quickly in electrical engineering related to death and one not related to Human death.
The first is the right hand rule. When we you are touching electronic components that may be charged use your right hand as it is further from your heart vs the left so it’s less likely to kill you if something were to go wrong. The Human body is more or less a giant bag of salt water after all.
The Second is to always touch with the back of your hand first. If you use your palm/fingers you risk the current causing your muscles to tense and then grab and hold the circuit and you’ll be unable to let go until long after you’re dead or someone breaks you off the circuit.
Finally, if you release the magic smoke the electronics are dead completely and totally. While refill kits exist they are hard to find and ever harder to use and capturing magic smoke is incredibly difficult.
Brian Beduhn 1 year ago
Working in several skilled trades, I work with high voltage/3 phase stuff (but <600vac) this is very true. All of it. Always treat, even LOTO'd s**t, as if it were live until you test it! Still waiting for 'Smoke Restore' kit to arrive though................
WindySwede 1 year ago
IBM did one (ploy) refill. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke#/media/File%3AMagic_smoke_refill_(5990429717)_(2).jpg
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Don't lick it either. My tendency to lick things has taught me many things
LandAhoy 1 year ago
Surely then it would be better to use a foot to touch electronics first, as it's further from the heart? Or, how about using rubber gloves and not taking a risk of shock?
CF 1 year ago
Oh god if ppl start taking off shoes and socks around me they'll end up dead for other reasons than electricity!
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martin734 1 year ago
I own a 45 year old Land Rover with Lucas electrics, escaping magic smoke is something I am very familiar with.
Dave Platt 1 year ago
Getting magic-smoke refill kits for Lucas electrics has become very difficult. The original kits were made from condensed "London particular" fog. Ever since Britain switched over to requiring the use of low-sulphur fuels, the London fogs just don't have that same unique burning-rubber stench which means "The Prince of Darkness was here!" I believe they've had to outsource the manufacture of Lucas-smoke kits to India and China.
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Jeff White 1 year ago
I have seen the magic smoke more than a few times. Not necessarily something to be proud of.
Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
Ah yes, the magic smoke. Anyone that's messed with computers and current knows about magic smoke.
Hootus 1 year ago
Yall, our hearts are in the middle of our chests. Our left ventricles just be a lil bigger....sticking out further to the left.
Kirsty 1 year ago
So then your right hand is further from the edge of the right side of your heart than your left hand is to the left side of your heart, just like they said no?
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it's a joke - it's when you damage/kill electrical components & make smoke.
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Elizabeth Harless 1 year ago
A corollary to the first rule is one hand for the circuit & the other in your pants pocket. That way the current doesn't travel across to your heart, but downward. Learned from a professional theatrical lighting technician.
#11
An ounce of polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill you.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
An ounce of polar bear will definitely kill you, if the ounce is attached to its paws or jaws.
Glenn Cuneo 1 year ago
And a polar bear with chainsaw arms will f**k you up beyond belief....
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Trash Panda 🦝 1 year ago
*disregards random fact and concentrates on the cute polar bear waving at me
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Same for husky dogs. If you read the account of Douglas Mawson's 'lost' Antarctic expedition, it explains that the men ate the dogs, and relished the livers. A-vitaminosis was unknown then, but the account details the (awful) effects. At one point, Mawson took of his socks, and the soles of his feet stayed in the socks.
#12
Nutmeg in large-but-not-nearly-as-large-as-you-might-think doses is a potent psychoactive that will basically make you go insane. Infamous addict William S. Burroughs wrote that the only people he ever met whom he thought were truly beyond redemption were the nutmeg addicts.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
Imagine going to jail and explain you were arrested for being high on nutmeg. lmao
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
giddiness, tingling, euphoria, hallucinations such as distortion of time and space, detachment from reality, sensation of separation from one's limbs and fear of impending death.
PattyK 1 year ago
Congratulations on a correct use of hyphens. (Once a copyeditor, always a copyeditor.)
Karl 1 year ago
It contains myristicin and saffrole (precursor of Ecstasy). However it won’t drive you insane - just make you trip out in a weird way for a day or so followed by a day of lethargy. Used to take it years ago if there was a weed drought. Not really recommended though as it has heptoxic properties. Interesting as a one off though.
Desiree Meredith 1 year ago
Years ago, I *accidently* got high on nutmeg. In smaller doses, it is said to be good for depression, but the dosage is never mentioned. I took one teaspoon in the morning before work, then added another teaspoon to my water bottle to sip on throughout the morning. It takes many hours for the nutmeg to start taking effect. I felt completely normal for about four hours, then I began feeling strange. Kind of discombobulated. My head felt like I was underwater, including the distorted sound of being underwater. I was keenly aware of every single thing happening around me. After a few hours it got worse (because of the nutmeg infused water I had been sipping on all morning). I had trouble focusing, and had to continuously bring myself back to reality. I became really paranoid that everyone I was interacting with could see inside my mind. I don't know how I survived the workday. Luckily, I did. Also, luckily, I had my husband pick me up from work because I couldn't drive.
Desiree Meredith 1 year ago
The remainder of the night was horrible. I was miserably paranoid, couldn't focus, and felt that life wasn't worth living. Not just for me. For anybody. I can definitely see how it could drive someone insane. That was just 2 teaspoons. Do not recommend. It isn't fun or relaxing. And it definitely does not help with depression.
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Sonja 1 year ago
It's still very unlikely to get high on nutmeg because it also induces feeling sick and vomiting in much lower doses than needed to get high. You have to be at least a little masochistic and very determined to get high from nutmeg.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
I did it when I was a teenager. It wasn't very fun.
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I will never forget the rancid taste of too much nutmeg my kid accidentally put in the pasta sauce. Absolutely vile and we were both turned off of nutmeg for a long time. omegapisquared in the Reddit comments said "psychoactive dose starts at about 2g. The potentially toxic dose is at around 30g. Nutmeg tastes disgusting at potent amount though so accidentally having too much seems unlikely" Normally people don't use that much nutmeg in anything.
Cat servant 1 year ago
The puke until I end up in the hospital dose is about the same as the psychoactive dose. Most people seen in emergency departments with nutmeg toxicity are under 5. Keep your spices out the the reach of children.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
That would explain why I read somewhere not to take nutmeg intravenously...
If not for these faculties, we’d all be sick all the time. But they are no superheroes either. There is a certain limit of toxicity that they can manage and any more than that could lead to a slew of problems depending on the circumstances. And even if you’re not consuming any toxins since you live in a clean environment, your body could be creating its own toxins—after all, it’s all a game of breaking down chemical compounds, and sometimes they can break down into toxins, despite not being such in the first place. And toxins in excess essentially weaken the body, and thus cause things like illness and speed up aging.
#13
Botulism (cause by exposure to botulinum toxins) is super lethal. It takes about 1 billionth of a gram per pound of body weight to kill a person. So if you weigh 200 pounds, just 0.00000002th of a gram can kill you.
Louise Clarke 1 year ago
I'm given Botox for my migraines and it works quite well with reducing the amount of migraines and severity of them.
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Hotomato 1 year ago
There was a couple who bought clam chowder in a carton. The package said "Perishable" but it did NOT say "Keep Refrigerated". So guess what? They put it on a shelf and a few weeks later ate it, even though it "Smelled bad and tasted bad". Darwin did not have his way in this naturally consequential instance with botulism. Unfortunately they were kept alive by modern medicine and were able (if they could/wanted) to procreate.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Not just rotten meat. Botulism can be found in spoiled canned goods, and is the main reason why making things like garlic oils at home is particularly risky. As a rule of thumb, don't store anything under oil that grows underground.
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 🦝 1 year ago
Yet perfectly acceptable to literally inject into the human body because... Wrinkles 🤦♂️
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Botox is used for a number of legitimate medical reasons including muscle spasms, hyperhydrosis (excessive sweating) and the treatment of migraines. The doses used for cosmetic purposes are completely safe. What cosmetic procedures someone chooses to have are entirely their own business.
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nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I'm with you 100%. Fat is nature's botox; I'm a user.
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Dread Pirate Roberts: "What you do not smell is called Iocane powder. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man."
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
That word.. I don't think it means what you think it means...
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Very interesting article on Iocane powder (From a legit health journal): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057547/
Marie Clear 1 year ago
The article is indeed worth a look. Published in the National Institute of Health's Library of Medicine, the last paragraph in the article's main section is this, "Please note that the authors of this Poison Pen do not have personal concerns with iocane exposure as we used our heartbroken years on a pirate ship to build up immunity to the poison on the off chance we might be presented down the road with a battle of wits to the death with a Sicilian who has kidnapped our long lost loves."
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Funhog 1 year ago
Actually, it was made up by William Goldman (not Hollywood).
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#15
Death is quite lethal. Just a single dose is enough to kill a person.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Apparently there was one chap who did, and his followers have been waiting nearly 2000 years for him to come back for a return season.
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FlamingoPanda 1 year ago
From a brilliant book I have come two quotes. "Life is sexually transmitted and terminal." "How do you know you're not immortal until you try"
mommamarmar 1 year ago
So is oxygen. Every person who has ever come into contact with oxygen has died.
Richard Nichols 1 year ago
Death has been the leading killer in the US for the past ten years.
And if we’re not putting toxins into our body, we’re maybe simply overeating—and that’s just as bad.
The obvious effect of overeating is gaining excess weight in the form of fat. Whenever you overeat, the body converts those extra calories into fat for later use. And if you like hoarding fat and never really using it, then obesity will be right around the corner, and that will put a strain on your body (e.g. the cardiovascular system).
#16
You would die from smoke inhalation before you could overdose on THC from smoking pot.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
Smoking anything is super harmful. Our lungs are not meant to breath in high concentration of smoke of any substance.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
OD isn't the problem, though, it's how it can affect chemistry in a developing brain. I know many people don't have problems with it, but working on mental health helplines I've taken so many calls from guys who trace their schizophrenia, psychosis, paranoia or anxiety back to a major weed habit in their late teens/early twenties.
Thom Serveaux 1 year ago
When 40% of the population does something, some are going to have this issue. I agree that THC is not safe for children/teens, but I'm disabled and it's helping me live a normal life.
Load More Replies... TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
But still, people need to treat pot exactly like alcohol. Same laws, regulations, and restrictions. Same kind of educational information that if you do it all the time there will be negative effects on your life.
Salty.Hag 1 year ago
Yup just like eating lots of fast food, drinking too much coffee, etc, etc. Everything has a limit, but alcohol and pot should most def not be in the same category, that's just extreme. Alcohol is far more dangerous, in countless ways.
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 🦝 1 year ago
I feel like this one should be before the one about the 45ft telephone pole sized joint...
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Oh man I love the police, don’t stand so close to me 😂
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David Brown 1 year ago
Had two dudes at a previous job that smoke copious amounts of weed. They were roommates and best friends. Their girlfriends smoked damn near as much as they did too. Well.... The company instituted random d**g tests and they freaked. One of their dumbass friends told them they could smoke as much delta8 as they wanted because it didn't show up on d**g tests. Not sure if the last part is true but what I am sure of is that you can absolutely vape enough of that shît to kill yourself. One of the guys got super hooked on the delta8 vape juice and smoked enough of it to fill his lungs with the vapor byproduct. He basically drowned himself on dry land.
#17
One of my favorite trombone fun facts is that within a human lifetime, you’ll eat about a trombone’s worth of Zinc and Copper (the metals that make brass). I had a kid once ask me “so if I eat a trombone right now, will I never have to eat zinc or copper again?” And the answer was yes, because you would die. Edit: okay I checked a source for how many minerals we actually need in a human lifetime, and turns out my original source was way wrong. We apparently eat 950 lbs of copper and 502 lbs of zinc in a lifetime, so considering that a large trombone of 6 lbs provides roughly 4 lbs of copper and 2 lbs of zinc, that works out to around 250 large trombones or 500 small trombones eaten in a human lifetime. But you would still die if you ate an entire trombone in one sitting.
Jessica Bertram 1 year ago
...and there were rows and rows of the finest virtuosos...
Load More Replies... Dan Flo 1 year ago (edited)
But how else would you make the polar bear liver go down?
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
If eating a trombone's worth of zinc and copper would cause a heat attack, does that mean one would die of a Coronary thrombosis?
badger 1 year ago
950 lbs of copper in a lifetime is ~450g a month, or 15g a day, which is absolutely nonsense when the RDA is 0.001g/day.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Thats why I don't fully trust anything on BP. Atleast not the posts, more the comments to them though! Especially posts about veterinarian tips about cats or dogs 😅
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Mel Colley 1 year ago
Can't an entire trombone? Well there goes my dinner plans. Guess I'll just have to have lobster tails instead.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Also, you need specialized proteins to transport metals into the body from the gut, and transfer in the body in the blood, so it is very hard to overdose. Only iron mimics are at a risk of overdose(chromium,lead, etc.) since body requires quite a bit of iron a day, and is capable of transporting 30mg a day.
#18
Salt. Two tablespoons full of salt will kill. There was a case some years ago where a kid mixed up salt and sugar in a desert and the mother made them eat the whole thing as punishment. The kid died, mum got off easy because the judge believed her that she really didn't know.
Thiago Gonsalves 1 year ago
That kind of mother, omg... Can't imagine doing such a thing to my kids.
Richard Nichols 1 year ago
I can't imagine the guilt or regret she must have felt.
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Using food as punishment should be considered abuse. Making kids eat too much could rupture their intestines and cause a lot of other preventable issues.
Max Fox 1 year ago
Actually, a bit more than that. According to various sources, around 0.5–1g per kg of body weight, or 0.035-0.07 tbsp per Kilo, or 0.0159-0.0318 tbsp per pound. An average 20 year old man in the USA is around 198 lb, so they would neem 3.14-6.26 tbsp salt to be lethal. for an average woman at 20 it would require 2.7-5.4 tbsp to be lethal. Two tablespoons of salt could possibly be lethal for somebody who weight 126 lb or less, but they may need as much as four tbsp. I do not know how much this all is in bananas, even non-radioactive bananas.
Llama_flower93 1 year ago
Right? I'd be happy that my kid tried to make dessert!
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Mam cymraeg 1 year ago
She might not have know it would kill but she did know it would make the kid sick it
Hazel Sage 1 year ago (edited)
What kind of monster punishes a kid for an innocent mistake?! Edit: just remembered why I haven't spoken to my dad in ten years…
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
If that mom isn't a psychopath can you imagine the guilt?... Your kid dead because you had to be a hardass
Overeating might also disrupt the way hunger is regulated in your body. Long story short, constant overeating might cause a chain of events that would eventually lead to training your body to give you dopamine to encourage you to overeat. This in turn creates a vicious cycle when hunger is no longer in the equation. But portioning your food more reasonably might help avoid this.
#19
Ointments with methyl salicylate like IcyHot and Tiger Balm can harm you if you use it over 40% of your body.
A teen died some years back after using a few types of muscle balms and adhesive pads at the same time.
majandess 1 year ago
Wintergreen! Methyl salicylate is an ester of salicylic acid (aspirin). Five drops is equivalent to a 300mg tablet of aspirin, and methyl salicylate is easily absorbed through the skin (which is why the patches work). I keep a stash of wintergreen mints in my medical supplies for sore throats.
Remi Flynne 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this information - as someone very intolerant of aspirin it means I know to avoid these things. 👍
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rullyman 1 year ago
If you use ibuprofen gels, don't let your cat touch you. It can kill them if ingested
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
It does contain a warning of potential liver damage though.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I put Deep Heat on my leg once (can't remember what for) and felt so nauseated afterwards. Never again.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Yeah, they're not to be used at the same time. But good to know of the risks.
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
I’m now allergic to IcyHot. I have to stick to Aspercream with Lidocaine. We think it might be the menthol that triggered a reaction.
Michelle C 1 year ago
This is why you don’t mix certain types of chemicals- like bleach and ammonia for cleaning- or ingest certain essential oils, even though they’re safe topically, either! Mixing bleach and ammonia will create mustard gas, too much wintergreen can irritate the eyes, ingesting certain essential oils, such as tea tree oil, can actually burn you internally, etc.
#20
Brazil nuts and selenium poisoning, don't eat em every day, or in consistent large quantities.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
“You can add just one Brazil nut a day to your diet with a meal of your choice, but it would be recommended to not exceed more than three in a day. Selenium intake should be limited to 400 mcg per day, with each Brazil nut containing between 70 to 100 mcg.” - health.com (LOL someone commented on Reddit "I just googled this to find out how many I can eat, and Google gave me a "there is help" 800 number as though I wanted to harm myself." XD)
ƒιѕн 1 year ago
These are the first ones I eat out of a can of mixed buts, usually eating all of them within 30 minutes, maybe a dozen or so.
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Upil 1 year ago
Reminded me of an episode of dr house, when i read the word brazil nuts my brain recall his voice saying the same word, lol.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Fun fact about Brazil nuts: it is the ONLY nut whose allergens can be passed through semen. If someone with a nut allergy gives you head after you eat Brazil nuts, they could die from an allergic reaction.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
The health department of the European Union advices to not eat more than 2 nuts per 24 hours
theoneandonlynoira 1 year ago
So health nuts eating these nuts might end up down with the nuts
#21
I remember a news story a couple of years ago where some guy died because he would eat 2 bags of black licorice every day.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
Looked it up since I was curious: It contains glycyrrhizic acid, which can cause swelling and high blood pressure and deplete potassium and other electrolytes that may cause a cardiac arrhythmia or arrest. Glycyrrhizic acid can be found in other foods, such as jelly beans and beverages for flavor. Consuming more than 57 grams (2 ounces) of black licorice per day for at least two weeks may lead to serious health problems.
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
How many jelly beans can be eaten? Asking for a friend.
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Molly Whuppie 1 year ago
it contains glycyrrhizic acid which can lower your potassium. in this dude's case he ate 1-2 bags a day for three weeks, which caused low level of potassium which gave him a heart attack.
The two other direct implications of overeating are nausea and indigestion as well as excessive gas and bloating.
In the first case, your stomach is put under pressure to process a huge amount of food, and so it might have to eject some of it or to rush through digesting something just to get sweet relief. With the latter, there are certain foods that are more prone to be broken down into gasses. And so if you eat more of it, hence there will be more gasses to expel. Nobody wants that. Not you, not those around you.
#22
You can go and buy a bottle of Tylenol at damn-near any grocery store, gas station, or pharmacy with 500mg capsules/tablets.
It is entirely possible to irreparably damage your liver and kidneys with as little as 7500mg... so 15 pills in a single day. Sure, this number generally requires other comorbidities to be present - chronic alcoholism, poor nutrition, etc - but losing track of how many you've taken is reasonably common (all things considered, especially for individuals in mental decline), making acute acetaminophen poisoning one of the leading causes of acute liver failure leading to death.
It is really not a fun way to go, either...
StrangeOne 1 year ago
You're not supposed to exceed 2 - 4 tablets a day of acetaminophen. If you require something stronger you need something prescribed.
Kylie 1 year ago
Tell that to the doctors who flatly REFUSE to prescribe anything stronger than an aspirin these days.
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Salty.Hag 1 year ago
No one knows me so I will tell my story. I took an entire bottle of 50 Tylenol. I am very blessed or lucky to be alive. I have absolutely no health issues, and the acetaminophen levels in my body were gone down to normal within a couple days. Granted I was in a brief coma and they had to work double time to save me but I'm here. So now, after going through all of that it got me to thinking how dangerous Tylenol is and it blows my mind that it's just sold over the counter. I know that's because we have to be responsible humans and not make stupid decisions, but knowing how much more dangerous it is than some narcotics, it just really blows my mind.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
I worked in a child/youth mental health service. We'd get young people, mostly female, who'd taken overdoses of paracetamol. Often they did this in ignorance of potentially lethal effects, believing that it would be simply a signal of the desperation they felt at their situation. Paracetamol is an excellent product when used as intended, but its risks need to be better publicised.
jonesnori 1 year ago
I downloaded a pill tracker app primarily to keep track of my cat's meds, but I have since found that it is incredibly useful for keeping my acetaminophen intake safely spaced out. I have it set so that it warns me if I try to take another dose too soon, or exceed the maximum 24-hour dose.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Have seen lethal overdoses and its an awful way to go. They die in agony. Also saw 1 elderly man who had been taking less than the lethal dose but still quite a lot but every day for over a year who ultimately died. Those warnings on the pack should not he ignored.
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
I actually built a device that my generic excedrin sits on that starts a four hour timer so I know when I can take them again for this very reason. I will not remember when I took them, and my headache will be bad, so I want to take more, but I can't because I don't want to overdose on the stuff.
Brenda 1 year ago
I take Norco-10s everyday for some chronic illnesses. Several years ago, I took norco-5. 5mg of codeine & 750mg of acetaminophen. Because they lowered the amount of acetaminophen to 325mg because of the damage it can do to your liv, they increased the codeine to 10mg. Not sure which is worse.
Amanda Fondaumiere 1 year ago
Well the good news is the liver, within reason, can repair itself.
Bec 1 year ago
Right? That's 15 500 mg pills, and they are usually 250mg, so 26. Even when I was downing multiple a day for migraines, I don't think I ever exceeded 8 in a 24 hour period
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#23
Consuming just six teaspoons of cinnamon powder in one sitting can potentially lead to death by cinnamon challenge gone horribly wrong
The Shark 1 year ago
It's hydrophobic. It won't dissolve in water or saliva so you often end up aspirating or choking on it if you try to consume large amounts to show social media you're the champion of stupid.
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StrangeOne 1 year ago
I love cinnamon but not by the spoonful. You can see how it reacts when you put in liquids. What do people think would happen if they just eat it like soup?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I only eat cinnamon if it's mixed with a little bit of sugar and butter on toast. Or in something where it's a flavoring like apple pie.
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
I have read, when doing the cinnamon challenge, one often involuntarily inhales cinnamon into your lungs where it stays forever.
Janet Graham 1 year ago
I love cinnamon sugar on toast, Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon in tea and coffee, and cinnamon in everything. I guess I should watch that.
#24
It only takes 7mL of hydrofluoric acid to absorb all the free calcium in the body of an adult human.
Source - I work with HF and we have very extensive safety training and routine tabletop drills to cover what to do in case of an exposure. Calcium gluconate can save lives.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Far worse is fluorine gas. It got the nickname "gas of Lucifer"' for good reason! Time was that there was a comprehensive list kept of every chemist who was poisoned or blown up by it. Luckily fluorine gas is not common!
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
This is a really fun one: https://www.discovery.com/science/Dangerous-Chemical-Chlorine-Trifluoride
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WakandaPanda 1 year ago
Company I previously worked for used HF, it was doped with Nitric acid to make it burn on purpose when you had any contact with it.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Technically, you can get a splash on the forearm, and it will 'eat' the bone underneath, leading to not just a fracture, but missing areas of bone. Nasty stuff. However, certainly in the UK, anywhere that uses it, also has to have the antidote in the same lab area. Same as drench showers and hydroxocobalamin for cyanide.
Anxious Aardvark 1 year ago
Organic chem lab class; guys across from me always clowned me for wearing a heavy cotton knee length lab coat and a full face shield, instead of goggles. They tipped over a bottle of HF and drops ran down the shield. No more laughing at my kit after that. I was fine.
Jill Bussey 1 year ago
Talk to a fire officer about working around a burnt out vehicle. Very dangerous for this reason.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
My father used to use hydroflouric acid to clean certain gem stones. That was something he took very seriously and used proper PPE for.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
The key word here is "free". Calcium in the bones is locked up in crystals, therefore is not free.
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One of the lesser known facts is that overeating might hinder brain functionality. Studies have determined that overweight people are more inclined to develop memory problems compared to those within the weight norm. Now, considering that the brain is mostly fat, eating healthy fats, like avocados, fish, and nut butters might help with that.
#25
Milk contain small amounts of alcohol. If you quickly drink 13 litres, you can blow positive in a breathalyser test (about 0.1 promille). You will have burst your stomach before that though, and probably drowned your brain.
Annabelle 1 year ago
It’s an interesting way of putting it. But if you drink a large amount of water at once for example, your brain will draw water in. This is because you create an environment where the sodium levels in your brain are higher than outside. Just like putting salt on the table and water around it. The salt will absorb water. This can cause severe neurological symptoms and death.
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Michelle C 1 year ago
I did not know that milk contains small amounts of alcohol! How is that so if anyone knows? I’m guessing it has to do with fermentation in a cow’s or other milk-producing animal’s stomach when is digesting what it eats? I’ve been around many kinds of animals for my entire life and I never knew this until today!
#26
Amanita phalloides, also known as the Death Cap mushroom. 0.1mg/kg of body weight of it's toxins is all it takes to be lethal. One mushroom typically contains about 15mg. The biggest danger is these look like mushrooms that are also perfectly edible.
Another set of lookalike mushrooms are Galerina marginata and Pholiotina rugosa which are often mistaken for "magic mushrooms" (Psilocybe)
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
And this is why you don’t eat wild mushrooms unless you know exactly what you’re doing
Max Fox 1 year ago
There are 5 types of edible mushrooms that have no lethal look-alikes: chanterelles, hen of the wood (maitake), chicken of the wood (sulphur mushrooms), oyster mushrooms, and morels. Puffballs are pretty safe too (before they dry up), but they are also tasteless.
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Spittnimage 1 year ago
Woman in Australia put Death Caps in beef Wellington and killed three out of four people who ate it then told the cops she didn't know they were poisonous mushrooms - but she didn't eat any of the food she served.
TomCat 1 year ago
She also said she bought them at a legitimate grocer. Very strange.
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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
Hmmm...and don't eat beef wellington pie served to you in Melbourne🤷🏻♀️ (iykyk)
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
A horrible story. 😔 It's not the humans in Australia that tend to worry me.
Load More Replies... Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
I blame Mario as the red with white spots mushrooms won't make you big in real life... they'll make you dead.
EvilNob 1 year ago
We have a family legend about the uncle of my mom, who tried to show that this mushroom can be eaten. His recipe was to eat it, drink a lot of coffee and alcohol, to make the three poison counter each other. He survived, but he saw the world for some weeks in yellow, because of his damaged liver.
Louise Anderson 1 year ago
a woman here in Australia recently murdered 3 or 4 people with these mushrooms. She went and picked them, dehydrated them and mixed them with normal mushrooms in a meatloaf.
Janet Graham 1 year ago
There was a case in Oregon in the early 1980s where a survivalist nature guide to a group on a week-long back country trip. They were late getting back and a search started. They were all found at a high country campsite. After an in-depth examination, they determined that the survival expert had made a dinner with goodies that had gotten from nature. The meal included deadly amounts of Death Cap.
#27
Too much stress will kill you
Jay Scales 1 year ago
Prolonged stress can cause many, many physical, mental & emotional problems that will make your life harder, less productive, less happy.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Caused brain & nerve damage in my balance center. The inner ear was sending the correct signals, but they were getting distorted by the damage, so I was constantly dizzy. Took months off physical therapy to teach my brain to interpret the new signals, then years of practice to keep from switching back to the old habits when under stress.
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RajunCajun 1 year ago
too much anything will kill you. Last week my friend got told he had to stop eating dairy because is calcium is twice the limit that can cause hart attacks
Michelle C 1 year ago
Stress is literally the primary killer of the most people worldwide if you consider what drives heart attacks!
Lastly, you might have noticed this one, but overeating might cause you to become suddenly sleepy.
It’s speculated that once a bigger meal is consumed, blood sugar might drop shortly and that would ultimately lead to sleepiness, sluggishness, headaches and the like. There’s also excess insulin production. And while that sounds like not a big deal, remember, that puts pressure on your body and if you’re, say, driving, drowsiness doesn’t help navigate roads.
#28
There used to be a website where you enter your height and weight, and it would tell you how many cans of Mountain Dew it would take to kill you. I don't think that site is still around.
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
Supposedly there's an LD50 (dosage that would be lethal to 50% of humans) for everything.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
The sources are getting really iffy and weird. Mountain Dew is banned in some countries because it contains bromine. This drink isn't even that good to drink.
Donteatme666 1 year ago
Mountain dew is awesome 😎 then again some people like diet coke to each there own right 👍
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Not sure it's the same site, but from the comments on that thread: https://www.caffeineinformer.com/death-by-caffeine
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
I worked with someone years ago who drank that stuff all day - he was wired like a hummingbird...not a good idea
#29
If you drink two liters of soy sauce you will die.
Tiny Dynamine 1 year ago
Ok, just to sum all of these up, eat or drink too much of anything, even water, and it will kill you.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Se my answers above. Though I found sources stating from 1 to 12 grams of salt/kg body weight. (0.5-1, 3, and 12) with the 3 grams LD50, that would be 3 liters and a 112 kg person. Though the 3g was for rat. If 0.5-1 gram, that would mean 0.3-0.7 liter of soy sauce for the same person. Sources above in other posts.
Load More Replies... Breadcrumb. 1 year ago
Makes me think of that young man in Denmark that died from a frat hazing challenge
A H 1 year ago
This also happened a few years ago in Belgium. It was a relatively large scandal at the time
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
If I ever drank two liters of soy sauce, death would come as a welcome relief.
JL 1 year ago
How do you 'accidentally' drink two liters of soy sauce? "I thought it was flat Coca Cola, but I wasn't sure..."
Phoenix 1 year ago
It seems less like an accident kind of thing and more like a tik tok challenge kind of thing.
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#30
Potassium chloride, the stuff they use to stop your heart during an execution, is also the same stuff they use as salt-substitute in low sodium salt products. Too much of that salt substitute can definitely kill you and there's even a tiny warning on the label if you look for it. If you search you can find several cases of death attributed specifically to this product.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
The source they used is not the best. Potassium chloride can be risky to people with diabetes and kidney failure. It's still better to eat whole foods with salt. But potassium chloride is not really that harmful to healthy people. Moderation is key to everything. It's in potato chips, chocolate bars, soups.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Potassium chloride works to increase your potassium - is used medically for hypokalemia (dangerously low potassium). Severe hypokalemia can result in your heart stopping, severe hyperkalemia can result in heart attacks (and like many hypo/hyper things, the symptoms can be the same either direction). You absolutely do need the right amount of potassium, and in certain potassium-deficient diets, the inclusion of potassium chloride is not particularly an issue. Moderation.
David 1 year ago
The LD50 of potassium chloride is a bit lower than table salt but either should be taken in moderation. "The LD 50 of orally ingested potassium chloride is approximately 2.5 g/kg, or 190 grams (6.7 oz) for a body mass of 75 kilograms (165 lb). In comparison, the LD 50 of sodium chloride (table salt) is 3.75 g/kg."
So, what are your thoughts on all of this? Have any other consumable dangers in mind that are worth sharing? Spill the beans in the comment section below! Or check out some of the other dangers that seem perfectly fine.
#31
A poison dart frog's skin is so poisonous that it can kill 20 men from simply touching the frog. This has to do with what wild frogs eat
C L 1 year ago
So are you saying that after 20 men touch the frog's skin all the poison has been transferred or what exactly?
necessary cephalopod 1 year ago
Nah, the frog just gets sick of all the touching and hops off.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Add: poison dart frogs raised in captivity aren't toxic. It appears the wild ones eat a specific species of ant, the frogs process the toxins in the insects and secrete it through their skin. Captive frogs are fed other insects, and so aren't toxic.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Don't lick! https://images.fanpo...76_1024_768.gif. (Though here toad..)
Lara Verne 1 year ago
It probably can kill women, too, so no kissing, even if frog claims that they're cursed prince.
David Brown 1 year ago
Kinda low key wish I had that ability. Dumbass people run into you in a store and don't apologize. No need to worry they'll drop dead soon enough.
Snowy Ashton 1 year ago
There's a place near me that sells poison dart frogs that aren't poisonous because they don't eat what they would in the wild. Cute little guys but not my kind of pet.
Jude Corrigan 1 year ago (edited)
The poison actually comes from the frogs diet and if kept in captivity,they are not poisonous.
#32
You can die from alcohol poisoning by drinking vanilla extract.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
In Australia, shearers' cooks (who cooked, not surprisingly, for teams of shearers engaged on sheep stations) were, and are, engaged on separate contracts. It used to be a truism to watch out for cooks who went through a lot of vanilla extract, as they were probably people with a drink problem.
Helen Rohrlach 1 year ago
I worked in shearing teams and most of them seemed to have a drink problem.
Load More Replies... LuLuBelle 1 year ago
If you're desperate enough to drink vanilla extract to get drunk, you should probably seriously consider rehab. Same goes for mouthwash.
Nikole 1 year ago
I used to drink vanilla extract because my boyfriend would check everywhere to make sure I didn’t buy booze. Little did he know… (Yes, those were dark times.)
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Candi Cabaniss 1 year ago
When I got a another teaching job, I could not figure out why there were several bottle of vanilla extract in my predecessor's office. It took me some time to figure out he was an alcoholic.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Ew. I’d rather drink Everclear than vanilla extract, and that stuff tastes like hand sanitizer that has been set on fire
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Apparently vanilla extract is about 35% alcohol by volume. So about the same as many standard spirits (Whisky, rum etc). So quite a lot, about 25 standard drinks (in short time) is enough to kill you. 25x30ml = 750ml basically sculled. That's just an estimate so it might be a tad lower or higher (and it varies by body weight).
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Because bananas are ever so slightly radioactive, if you eat 50,000 of them in a short time frame you'll die from radiation. The downside is your stomach would explode and kill you long before you got anywhere close to 50,000.
Trash Panda 🦝 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure if you eat 50,000 of anything in a short time, you're gonna die. Almost positive.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
I like "the downside" here not being radiation death. Like we're not reaching our goals of rad death, which is upsetting, because you'll die from banana volume first.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
How did they come up with 50,000? Did they use a banana for scale? 🤔😁😆
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
There was a rumor in the 60s that eating dried banana peel scrapings would get you high. It all started with Donovan's hit Mellow Yellow (quite right, slick)
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
There is a Harry Chapin song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas. He souped the story up a bit, but it is a true story in many respects. Check it out, it happened in Scranton, PA, USA
#34
Just a couple bottle of blue juice valve oil for brass instruments can easily kill you. I learned this in drum corps after my buddy went to the ER because it slowly worked its way out of his valves and up his lead pipe and back out his mouthpiece.
Mark 1 year ago
How much valve oil did OP’s friend stick into his instrument. Valve oil is a lubricant, not a soup
J He/Him/They/Them/We/Us/I/Me 1 year ago
i watched a competition and one band did romeo and juliet for their show, you can’t easily portray poison (ie put the skull and cross bones) at such a long distance, so they used a poison every band kid would recognize, blue juice valve oil.
Mark (it/urgh) 1 year ago
I'm more intrigued about the guy who used a mouthpiece as part of a drum corps.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure a lot less of veterinary blue juice will kill you! (It's actually sodium pentobarbital mixed with blue food coloring, they use that for putting animals down.)
#35
Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl. The amount it takes to kill a grown man is the size of a grain of salt.
Display Name 1 year ago
they have nalaxone resistant carfentanil too, that's scary scary stuff
Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
The usual doses of fentanyl are measure in micrograms. Most medicines are measured in milligrams. So fentanyl is already 1000 times more potent than most medicines you will ever have taken. So 100 times that is extremely potent. Edit: Changed the censored word to medicines, as it looks like I'm talking about male appendages and not d-r-u-g-s!
AxleMunshine001 1 year ago (edited)
I can't believe the stupid censorship in Bored Panda. We are being treated like small children that need to be "protected". Such a patronising attitude.
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Marinasongs1432 1 year ago
Some bus driver I knew had a daughter who died with this tranquilizer in order to let her get some sleep. The bus driver came into peace with this, but it’s really tragic. The daughter had issues sleeping. Really sad
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Used on large animals like elephants. Do have one resistant to narcan really is scary.
Josh Stevenson 1 year ago
I've seen first hand what regular fen can do... and that was horrifying. I truly pray for anyone unfortunate enough to come across this stuff. 🙏
StrangeOne 1 year ago
There's been so many overdoses in my city. It's really sad. This is also an addiction that can start from a single, doctor's prescription of fentanyl. Always wondered what kind of doctor prescribes narcotics until my last visit to a walk-in clinic. I turned down that prescription. I just wanted to treat a chest congestion that I thought was an infection.
LuLuBelle 1 year ago
My husband was in palliative care/hospice for bone cancer. Fentanyl patches were a Godsend for him. He was lucky to be in a hospital that understood adequate pain management and so he was able to get the high dose patches he needed. Unfortunately some cancer patients aren't so lucky because doctors fear legal consequences from "overprescribing" opioids for chronic or end-of-life pain. It's a shame addicts, and doctors who cater to their addiction, have made it harder for people who really need opioids to get them.
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#36
breathing in a 100% oxygenated atmosphere can and will cause more damage than good
The air you normally breathe consists of 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen
You can breathe comfortably with 20%
Nitrogen acts as a noble gas atleast if you only consider noble gasses as gasses that you can breathe without too much risk
Oxygen on the other hand is pretty volatile and can actually literally kill you if you breathe it in too much
If you have 100% oxygen it means you can literally poison yourself with the thing you need to live with which lowers your life expectancy
Breathing in pure oxygen is not a bad thing as long as you don't do it 24/7 unless you have to (mechanical ventilators LTIC dont actually give you pure oxygen it just makes you breathe if you cant control your diaphragm)
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Divers call it oxygen narcosis. It can cause you to become disoriented in a way that makes you confused which way is up or down and even will make divers still underwater think they're out of water, in extreme cases just before they die.
Robert T 1 year ago
Whilst we're on the subject of divers. The nitrogen in normal compressed air is what gives diver's the bends if they surface too quickly, or dive too deep. For really deep dive work, they use heliox - a mixture of helium (a noble gas) and oxygen - elimitating the nitrogen.
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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
Oxygen given to babies in humidicribs caused thousands of babies to go blind. It was as bad a disaster as thalidomide.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
Man, there's a lot of wrong in that post. Too much oxygen is toxic, but so is too much water. "breathing in a 100% oxygenated atmosphere" is mostly dangerous due to the risk of fire or explosion. Breathing 100% oxygen is perfectly okay or modest periods of time, and extremely beneficial under some conditions. Divers often breathe what's essentially 160% O2 by breathing pure O2 at a depth of 20 feet if they've done a dive that requires decompression. Nitrogen isn't noble gas, no matter what you consider. Too much O2 can kill you, but only if you breathe a high enough concentration for long enough to severely damage your lungs, or is you dive deep enough that your gas mixture exceeds a partial pressure of O2 greater than 1.6 atmospheres and you drown after having a seizure. If you're in a dry environment even partial pressures over 1.6 aren't harmful in the short term, as long as somebody is watching over you to keep you from hurting yourself if you have a seizure.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
What about it? Some of my best diving has been at 33 feet.
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Not kill you, but it would take 40 Nonalcoholic Beers to get the average person drunk.
Lily Kramer 1 year ago
That'd be way too many trips to the bathroom to pee before even getting buzzed.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
As the philosophers say, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single sip."
Load More Replies... Michelle C 1 year ago
Most likely, you’d probably die from dehydration from having to urinate before you’d get even close to that number! Why anyone would want to drink that much beer, alcoholic or otherwise, baffles me.
Nikole 1 year ago
Why would you die from dehydration? You’d be overly hydrated.
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#38
Neutrinos are subatomic particles that barely interact with normal matter, and yet [if you were close enough to a supernova] and somehow survived everything else, there would be *so many* neutrinos that you would nonetheless receive a lethal radiation dose.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Yes. O'Neill with *two* 'L's. He's the one with the sense of humor.
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I live next door to this, it's an old gold mine converted into a neutrino studying lab! https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-building-tunnels-under-south-002241040.html
FluffyDreg 1 year ago
https://youtu.be/bXdBzpRDR5I?si=5d2fxcN8Jmljsx6o You wont regret watching this i promise
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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
If you were close enough to a supernova to suffer a lethal neutrino dose, I'm sure other things would kill you first - the blast, the heat, etc.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
I wonder if any of the dots were made by 4d vectored particles passing through our time or universe.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Saying smart words does not make you smart. Firstly, if we're considering time as a variable for vectors, every particle is is passing through our time because that's how time works. Secondly, while there is *speculation* that it is possible for high energy particles to escape to a different plane through a directional 4d vector, this has been studied extensively, especially by physicists studying the mechanics of gravity (can be summarized as "where the f**k are our gravitons?"), there is very little evidence of particles simply appearing from nowhere. Neutrinos and various mesons are produced by reactions in the sun and sent to earth where we can detect them. As soon as they collide and slow down, they decay away into different particles. A theory is not a theory if it is not testable and has no physical evidence.
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A cigar is supposed to have enough nicotine for up to 8 fatal doses. You would probably have to extract the nicotine and administer it orally for this because smoking destroys a lot of it.
iseefractals 1 year ago
The LD50 of nicotine for adults is 0.5 - 1mg per Kg of body weight, 30-60mg. For children however, it's only 0.1mg per kg of body weight. A 10ml bottle of flavored vape liquid can have as much as 200mg of nicotine, while the unflavored ones used for mixing your own flavors can contain as much as 1000mg.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Nicotine absorbs through your skin as I found out trying to mix tape juice.
les 1 year ago (edited)
if you boil down a cigarette you can get enough poison to kill someone. if they are a smoker it would be almost untracable if administered through food. you can get a really nasty poison from boiling rhubarb leaves too and the aluminum pot you boiled them in would be unusable afterwards as the liquid is absorbed by it. it can also be used to polish aluminum as it leaves it with an almost chrome like shine which is why i've done it
#40
You can technically slap a human into being cooked alive, if slapped enough times, or slapped hard enough.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
“Imma slap you so hard you gonna be done medium rare!” IDK, needs some work.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
I recall being told a long time ago about Argentinian gauchos (cowboys) who would put thin slices of raw beef under their saddles at the start of the day. By the end of the day, the repeated slapping and friction had cooked and tenderised the meat to absolute perfection.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Their poor horses must have had massive saddle sores! :(
Load More Replies... TastyRex 1 year ago
This gets my chef brain wheels a-spinning. Maybe (along with tamarind) assaulted meat is the food trend of 2024. I know a couple cooks that wouldn't mind beating up the meat.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Someone did the theoretical math on cooking a chicken by slapping and the figures are ridiculous. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/30487/20210405/cook-chicken-slapping-guy.htm
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One might find it fascinating how ideas about the consumption of everyday items can significantly affect our well-being. Just as it's engaging to witness the unique presentation of music through unusual setups, like playing drums with toothpick-sized sticks, understanding the limits and effects of what we consume can offer similar insights into creativity and the importance of moderation.
For an intriguing perspective on how diverse forms of art and entertainment can captivate us, see how a musician skillfully manages to cover a famous track in a way you might not have seen before.
What do you think ?
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Some of these are interesting and deliver on the headline but it quickly descended into 'anything can kill you'.
Tristan J 1 year ago
Not to mention some ludicrous entries, such as suggesting we eat 950lbs of copper in a lifetime, when even 1g of copper in a day would likely kill you.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I thought it was about edible/ingested lethal things, they should remove the irrelevant obvious stuff like driving. Otherwise we may as well add sharks and tornados and so on.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Licorice root (not the same thing as licorice) can severely boost blood pressure and drop potassium levels; it's fundamentally the opposite of blood pressure medication. 2oz a day of the stuff for 2 weeks is enough to cause complications in most adults, and far less is needed to cause them for those with heart conditions. 20g in a day is the typically fatal dose, but you'll shorten your lifespan long before hitting that threshold!
Cassie 1 year ago
Some people don't realize a lot of vitamins have a toxic limit. It's pretty challenging to OD on vitamin D, but I encountered a guy who took a toxic dose daily for an extended period because he thought it was healthy and safe to take as much as you could and because there is no regulation on dosing of OTC vitamins and a lot of them are offered in doses too high to begin with, so he saw no problem with taking several at a time. By the time I met him, his body was in the process of shutting down and there was nothing to be done about it. If you intend to take vitamins, research appropriate and toxic dosing information first.
TheCrazyBunnyLady 1 year ago
That this was all bloody obvious. This is high school biology/chemistry. ▪️▪️▪️ Every substance taken in excess can disrupt the buffer systems that keep our bodies safe. That's why even water has an upper intake limit. "It's the dose that makes the poison." In many cases, a ridiculously high dose.
Dan Flo 1 year ago (edited)
Hydraulic injection damage (for the love of keeping dinner in, do NOT image search). I work with high pressure hydraulics, from 10000 psi up to 45000 psi. A jet of leaking fluid will cut through you like nothing. Even if you get small puncture wound that doesnt seem too bad - you better hurry to the hospital or you risk loosing a limb or worse. Had a customer talk about how they have a system of hoses in different colors now, because they had an incident when someone connected a 500 bar rubber hose into a 1500 bar system, and the hose ruptured, a thin jet of oil pierced through his body, throuh his heart, killing him instantly.
Dan Flo 1 year ago
Also, not fatal but can cause depression: If you have 2 liters of ice cream, and you eat all of it - you no longer have any ice cream and that is so depressing.
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Enlee Jones 1 year ago
In 1974 a man in England died from Vitamin A poisoning after drinking too much carrot juice.
Rocket Surgeon 1 year ago
Carrots. Ate about a pound of them the other day and almost went to the ER. half a pound more and I could have died.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Some of these are interesting and deliver on the headline but it quickly descended into 'anything can kill you'.
Tristan J 1 year ago
Not to mention some ludicrous entries, such as suggesting we eat 950lbs of copper in a lifetime, when even 1g of copper in a day would likely kill you.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I thought it was about edible/ingested lethal things, they should remove the irrelevant obvious stuff like driving. Otherwise we may as well add sharks and tornados and so on.
Sky Render 1 year ago
Licorice root (not the same thing as licorice) can severely boost blood pressure and drop potassium levels; it's fundamentally the opposite of blood pressure medication. 2oz a day of the stuff for 2 weeks is enough to cause complications in most adults, and far less is needed to cause them for those with heart conditions. 20g in a day is the typically fatal dose, but you'll shorten your lifespan long before hitting that threshold!
Cassie 1 year ago
Some people don't realize a lot of vitamins have a toxic limit. It's pretty challenging to OD on vitamin D, but I encountered a guy who took a toxic dose daily for an extended period because he thought it was healthy and safe to take as much as you could and because there is no regulation on dosing of OTC vitamins and a lot of them are offered in doses too high to begin with, so he saw no problem with taking several at a time. By the time I met him, his body was in the process of shutting down and there was nothing to be done about it. If you intend to take vitamins, research appropriate and toxic dosing information first.
TheCrazyBunnyLady 1 year ago
That this was all bloody obvious. This is high school biology/chemistry. ▪️▪️▪️ Every substance taken in excess can disrupt the buffer systems that keep our bodies safe. That's why even water has an upper intake limit. "It's the dose that makes the poison." In many cases, a ridiculously high dose.
Dan Flo 1 year ago (edited)
Hydraulic injection damage (for the love of keeping dinner in, do NOT image search). I work with high pressure hydraulics, from 10000 psi up to 45000 psi. A jet of leaking fluid will cut through you like nothing. Even if you get small puncture wound that doesnt seem too bad - you better hurry to the hospital or you risk loosing a limb or worse. Had a customer talk about how they have a system of hoses in different colors now, because they had an incident when someone connected a 500 bar rubber hose into a 1500 bar system, and the hose ruptured, a thin jet of oil pierced through his body, throuh his heart, killing him instantly.
Dan Flo 1 year ago
Also, not fatal but can cause depression: If you have 2 liters of ice cream, and you eat all of it - you no longer have any ice cream and that is so depressing.
Load More Replies... Enlee Jones 1 year ago
In 1974 a man in England died from Vitamin A poisoning after drinking too much carrot juice.
Rocket Surgeon 1 year ago
Carrots. Ate about a pound of them the other day and almost went to the ER. half a pound more and I could have died.
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