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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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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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

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Back in St. Olaf
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Onions can also kill a dog, so can sugar free gum. Most people don't realize this.

Jeevesssssss
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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StrangeOne
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

Where’s The Shovel?
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It depends on how small the dog is and how many grapes or raisins they eat. My dog (approx 23kg) got into and ate most of a 500g bag of sultanas, in a panic I took her to the vets but she was fine.

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LonelyLittleLeafSheep
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love that your cats name is Dr Seuss. That's my 5 year olds favourite author.

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martymcmatrix
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...🍇 🙅🏽 🐕

Wheeskers
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My lab who lived to be 16 loved grapes. I did not know then.

Nikole
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Max Fox
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, not one, but at least three for a puppy, which a full grown dog can eat 10 -12 or more, if they are larger.

Rebecca O’Donnell
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

Zoe's Mom
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sugar. I don't see where anyone has posted sugar. Im always surprised that people give there dogs Pup-a-chinos from Starbucks to their dogs. Anyone else?

Lu
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently and I need a fact check here, dogs eat their poop to maintain gut bacteria if they aren’t healthy.

Mara Was… A Surgeon
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dog ate several green grapes and was fine. To be fair, he's absolutely insane and eats paper towels, tissue, whole corn cobs, sticks of butter...

María Hermida
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid, we had a German Shepard who loved eating soap. You know the coarse, unscented soap used in the past to wash clothes? That one. She would jump or break into the most hidden corners to get it.

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MushroomHead22
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

for those that don't know, when this person says "eat s h i t" they mean literally.

Kim Lorton
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a whole list of things dogs cannot eat. Read it if you have a dog

Meami
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are a lot of foods that dogs should not eat (most have been listed here). That said, I think it depends on the amount, the size of your dog, and their general health for some things. A large dog in good health can eat one grape and probably be fine unless they have a specific sensitivity. A Chihuahua might die after one grape. Does this mean I’d let our dog eat grapes? Absolutely not. I’m just trying to put it in perspective.

Janet Graham
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only some grapes are toxic. And, I believe it is the seed and not the rest of the grape.

EJN
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, most fruit seeds and pits are poisonous to animals and people in the right amounts. They often contain cyanide. Always make sure you don't leave fruits with pits/seeds lying around dogs because dogs will eat ANYTHING! Cats are pickier, but they will eat pits too. Don't let your kids eat them either!

Shadow
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dog, a 10lbs pinscher, ate grapes and chocolate. He wasn't even sick! Proof that it probably has different effects depending on the dog

Ash
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our spaniel cross used to steal small grapes off the vine and sometimes grapes from the fruit bowl. Lived until she was 15. Maybe she had an iron stomach

3 Trash Pandas (She/They)
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time I see something like this I’m reminded of the time I gave trail mix that had fallen on the floor to some friendly stray dogs. I took care to remove the chocolate, but I forgot that It had raisins in it :,(

Khavrinen
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adam Ragusea just did a video about dogs eating "people food": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNac8LIQPXQ

Rosie Red
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chocolate, raisins, garlic, onions, certain nuts and the list goes on.

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grapes/raisins, onions, garlic, chocolate... Plus a lot that may not killem but can sure make em sick.

Mia Black
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents dogs always eat grapes that fall on the ground from where they grow. I told them (parents) about it but they can't watch the dogs 24/7. They (dogs) are outdoor with lots of space to roam most of the time. They eat what they eat ...

Jeevesssssss
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One grape CAN, not WILL. It's very unlikely just one could do it, but with the right set of circumstances it's possible. It serves as a statement to highlight the toxicity level though.

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Astro
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do people have the balls to confidently claim stuff like this without even bothering to check if they’re wrong when they’re obviously going to get corrected? (Sorry Sergey, you’re wrong): https://vcacanada.com/know-your-pet/grape-raisin-and-currant-poisoning-in-dogs

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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"

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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.

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#4

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much To overdose on Weed you'd have to smoke a telephone pole sized joint in 45 minutes

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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. 

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also wouldn't be able to come to your place if work because I would be busy puking 40 bananas.

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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.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have seen the unwritten ending of that last one. It was ugly, to say the least. Alcohol is not your friend.

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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

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much You’ll die faster without sleep than without food

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Phoenix
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true but seems strange because I can function longer without sleep than I can without food.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much Oleander plant is just poisonous all the way through. A single leaf will kill a human adult. Very pretty though!

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JayWantsACat
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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StrangeOne
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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Brian Beduhn
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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................

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much An ounce of polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill you.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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JayWantsACat
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine going to jail and explain you were arrested for being high on nutmeg. lmao

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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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."

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Death is quite lethal. Just a single dose is enough to kill a person.

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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).

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much You would die from smoke inhalation before you could overdose on THC from smoking pot.

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StrangeOne
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smoking anything is super harmful. Our lungs are not meant to breath in high concentration of smoke of any substance.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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. 

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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majandess
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much Brazil nuts and selenium poisoning, don't eat em every day, or in consistent large quantities. 

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StrangeOne
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“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)

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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. 

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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...

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StrangeOne
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not supposed to exceed 2 - 4 tablets a day of acetaminophen. If you require something stronger you need something prescribed.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much Consuming just six teaspoons of cinnamon powder in one sitting can potentially lead to death by cinnamon challenge gone horribly wrong

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C L
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't have any cinnamon yo try it - what happens if it is put in liquids?

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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Sky Render
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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)

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The Darkest Timeline
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why you don’t eat wild mushrooms unless you know exactly what you’re doing

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Too much stress will kill you

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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.

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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Phoenix
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Caffeine Calculator. https://www.caffeineinformer.com/death-by-caffeine

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40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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. 

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StrangeOne
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8 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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

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C L
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So are you saying that after 20 men touch the frog's skin all the poison has been transferred or what exactly?

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#32

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much You can die from alcohol poisoning by drinking vanilla extract.

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Gustav Gallifrey
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#33

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.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm pretty sure if you eat 50,000 of anything in a short time, you're gonna die. Almost positive.

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#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.

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Mark
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How much valve oil did OP’s friend stick into his instrument. Valve oil is a lubricant, not a soup

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#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.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they have nalaxone resistant carfentanil too, that's scary scary stuff

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#36

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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)

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K M
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Noble gases are not gases you can breathe in without ill effect. Noble gases are gases that don’t react with other elements due to having a complete electron shell on the outside of the atom. All the valence electrons = inert.

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#37

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much Not kill you, but it would take 40 Nonalcoholic Beers to get the average person drunk.

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Lily Kramer
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That'd be way too many trips to the bathroom to pee before even getting buzzed.

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#38

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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#39

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much 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.

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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#40

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much You can technically slap a human into being cooked alive, if slapped enough times, or slapped hard enough.

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