Bacteria, plants, and fungi house the most natural poisons, but surprisingly they’re not all just in the rainforest. Your age or the amount of antibodies in your system can effect how potent the poison is, but just…don’t eat, inhale or inject these items. Please? Thanks.

Ricin, for example, most commonly found in castor plants, takes 1-3 days to cause death, making it most popular with assassins. The most deadly of all however, is clostridium botulinum, which causes the disease Botulism, leading to paralysis and respiratory failure. About one grain-of-sand worth of this matter could kill 9600 people! It can come from eating improperly canned food (ew), and also in honey (I never liked the stuff).

Watch the video to learn more, and about a few others!

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