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bhangmango , Samuele Errico Piccarini / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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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Farnzy 8 months ago

I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME

208points

Diablix , Léo Roza / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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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Maggie Fulton 8 months ago

How?!

38points

Grizzchops , Alexander Grey / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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.

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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Audra 8 months ago

Challenge accepted 😏🤣

208points

Nooddjob_ , Rodrigo dos Reis / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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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TheBlueBitterfly 8 months ago

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

27points

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.

astarredbard Report

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146points

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Headless Horseman 8 months ago

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

88points

Dressed2Thr1ll , Andisheh A / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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.

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 8 months ago

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

35points

ohfrackthis , Junaid Khan / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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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129points

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JayWantsACat 8 months 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.

85points

vivivivivistan , Brendan Church / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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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123points

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StrangeOne 8 months 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.

53points

Bobsaid , Emmanuel Ikwuegbu / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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

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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112points

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Brian Beduhn 8 months 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................

8points

Canucklehead_Esq , Hans-Jurgen Mager / unsplasj (not the actual photo) Report

#11

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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106points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

An ounce of polar bear will definitely kill you, if the ounce is attached to its paws or jaws.

196points

punninglinguist , Herusutimbul / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

#12

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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103points

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JayWantsACat 8 months ago

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

82points

demanbmore , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library Report

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

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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97points

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Display Name 8 months ago

botox

54points

#14

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."

Hey-Just-Saying Report

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97points

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Hphizzle 8 months ago

Inconceivable!!

118points

#15

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

PlayrR3D15 Report

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95points

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Max Fox 8 months ago

Life is as lethal. Nobody has ever survived life.

137points

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

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.

teethalarm Report

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93points

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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)

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

75points

tringle1 , Jon Tyson / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#17

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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90points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

*meows 76 Trombones*

46points

Bonschenverwerter , Faran Raufi / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#18

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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90points

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Thiago Gonsalves 8 months ago

That kind of mother, omg... Can't imagine doing such a thing to my kids.

131points

Richard Nichols 8 months ago

I can't imagine the guilt or regret she must have felt.

2points

StrangeOne 8 months ago

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.

74points

kathoco 8 months ago

Which desert did they live in and how is it relevant to the story?

42points

Piglet 8 months ago

Upvoted, because spelling DOES matter.

33points

AlexJ 8 months ago

In an investigation, details matter.

5points

Bored something 8 months ago

Because she made them eat the desert. We all need to update our maps.

1point

Max Fox 8 months 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.

27points

Jill Bussey 8 months ago

"Dessert."

17points

The Shark Premium 8 months ago

Why in earth would mixing up salt and sugar warrant punishment?

11points

Llama_flower93 8 months ago

Right? I'd be happy that my kid tried to make dessert!

6points

Mam cymraeg 8 months ago

She might not have know it would kill but she did know it would make the kid sick it

6points

Hazel Sage 8 months 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…

2points

Dread Pirate Roberts 8 months ago

That's not a mother. That's a monster.

1point

Michael Danhauer 8 months ago

If that mom isn't a psychopath can you imagine the guilt?... Your kid dead because you had to be a hardass

1point

WakandaPanda 8 months ago

'Dessert'

1point

Ranboo beloved He/They 8 months ago

I think I've seen this. Might've been a different story, but some kid almost overdosed on salt cus he would eat spoonfuls of it at a time. Idk I was young when I saw the news story

1point

R.A. Haley 8 months ago

My wife told me a story about how she saw one of her relatives eating a bowl of "ice cream" and asked for some. Her mom gave her some... it was butter. Her mom made her eat the whole big bowlful and the relatives thought it was hilarious.

1point

Nadine Debard 8 months ago

I think people don't realize how much it is. 20 grams are the amount I would put in 2kg sausage for example, or 3 or 4 kg of bread. That's an insane amount.

1point

Gypsy Lee 8 months ago

But what mother makes a kid eat something like that? I say make her eat it to. If she lives, she’s a witch. If not.. my bad.

0points

Eric Dubiel 8 months ago

Which desert were they in? Sahara?

0points

Eric Dubiel 8 months ago

what desert? Sahara?

0points

BatPhace 8 months ago

I don't know if this is accurate. I eat a ton of salt, I've craved it since I was small.

0points

Bob Brooce 8 months ago

There have been cases of mothers being tried after kids died from ingesting too much salt, but this particular story appears to be b******t, and should be viewed as such until somebody can provide a reliable cite.

0points

somed ay 8 months ago

Completely untrue. You would have to eat a huge amount of salt. Just google it.

0points

Bob Brooce 8 months ago

Completely true, but with qualifications. The problem with ingesting too much salt, as is true with too much or too little of many things, is developing an electrolyte imbalance. If a healthy adult ingests 2 tablespoons it's very unlikely to kill them, but many factors can affect the risk. One of the biggest is being dehydrated, because it reduces blood volume and increases electrolyte levels.

3points

Ashley Miller 8 months ago

It depends on the kind of salt.

0points

WindySwede 8 months ago (edited)

Salt is usually just table salt, NaCl? Yes there are lots of other [salts] as well. edit:spelling

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Michelle C 8 months ago

…How does someone not know the difference between sugar and salt with ample exposure to both substances?!

-1point

FluffyDreg 8 months ago

If you dont taste it before hand and they are kept in similar containers (as some people do)

0points

Jen Hart 8 months ago

Well, I'm sure the kid learned their lesson and never made that mistake again /s 😒

-1point

Samsquatch & Monko 8 months ago

How am I even alive

-1point

Mint the tiger 🩷 she her 8 months ago

I doubt the 2 tablespoon part. My brother puts sòoooooo salt on things

-1point

John Harrison 8 months ago

Two tablespoons is lethal? Please.

-2points

T'Mar of Vulcan 8 months ago

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radarsteddybear4077 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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

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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88points

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majandess 8 months 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.

29points

kr00t0n , Quadell / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

#20

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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82points

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StrangeOne 8 months 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)

73points

I_might_be_weasel , Helen Rickard / flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#21

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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82points

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JayWantsACat 8 months 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.

58points

absentmindedjwc , Erik Mclean / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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

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...

Final score:

81points

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StrangeOne 8 months ago

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

25points

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#23

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

ravengoos99g4 , Diana Polekhina / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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75points

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C L 8 months ago

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

10points

bears_eat_you , Hans Reniers / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#24

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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72points

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Sky Render 8 months 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!

4points

Flat-Cover8824 , Eiliv Aceron / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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

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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69points

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Thiago Gonsalves 8 months ago

You will die for many reasons before being able to do the test

47points

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#26

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)

little_brown_bat , Archenzo / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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68points

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The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago

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

85points

Impressive_House_313 Report

#27

Too much stress will kill you

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65points

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TastyRex 8 months ago

Or, in my case, it is all that's keeping you going.. 😭

23points

UltimaGabe , Evenezer Marak / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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

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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56points

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Phoenix 8 months ago

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

47points

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#29

40 Ordinary Things That Can End Your Life If You Accidentally Have Too Much If you drink two liters of soy sauce you will die.

Glass1Man , Dasha / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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55points

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Dingooo 8 months ago

Of stupidity?

130points

#30

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.

CirothUngol , Wikipedia Report

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54points

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StrangeOne 8 months 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.

24points

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

possessed-by-fire Report

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54points

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C L 8 months ago

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

19points

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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.

randomredditing , Foodie Flavours / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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51points

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Gustav Gallifrey 8 months 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.

32points

#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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50points

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Trash Panda 🦝 8 months ago

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

75points

#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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48points

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Mark 8 months ago

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

58points

#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.

dma1965 Report

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48points

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Display Name 8 months ago

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

26points

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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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41points

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K M 8 months ago

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.

80points

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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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39points

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Lily Kramer 8 months ago

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

47points

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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.

ThadisJones , Argonne National Laboratory Report

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34points

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Sky Render 8 months ago

Thank you Randall Monroe of xkcd for figuring this one out!

29points

MaxwellzDaemon , Yohan Cho / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#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.

Final score:

33points

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iseefractals 8 months 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.

15points

DreyfusBlue , Andrew Le / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#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.

Final score:

29points

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The Darkest Timeline 8 months ago

“Imma slap you so hard you gonna be done medium rare!” IDK, needs some work.

90points

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Flora Porter 8 months ago

Some of these are interesting and deliver on the headline but it quickly descended into 'anything can kill you'.

17points

Tristan J 8 months 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.

0points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

Life is fatal. Everyone who lives will die.

12points

TheBlueBitterfly 8 months ago

Sexually transmitted and fully fatal.

11points

censorshipsucks 8 months 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.

6points

Ryan Mercer 8 months ago

Sharknados!

10points

Sky Render 8 months 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!

3points

A B C the Fourth (QUIT CENSORING BP) 8 months ago (edited)

Wait - BP comes up with cráp like UNALIVED, but now gives us "suicide advice"? What the fúck is happening here? Am I allowed to say fúck now? F**k? Am I unalived for this? Is BP suicidal? BP are you suicidal? Do you need help? DO YOU NEED HELP BP? Fúck my life, it's happening.

2points

Cassie 8 months 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.

2points

Synsepalum 8 months ago

Just a single serial killer can kill you.

2points

Nikole 8 months ago

Not if you kill him first!

0points

TheCrazyBunnyLady 8 months 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.

2points

Dan Flo 8 months 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.

2points

Dan Flo 8 months 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.

2points

Enlee Jones 8 months ago

In 1974 a man in England died from Vitamin A poisoning after drinking too much carrot juice.

1point

Rocket Surgeon 8 months 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.

1point

Rae Rory 8 months ago

There are a few plants, that if visited by bees, will make their honey very toxic. Bog Rosemary, Rhododendrons, Pieris, or Calico bush. Sometimes the honey will act as a psychotropic d**g, sometimes it will kill you. Good luck!

1point

Greenmantle 8 months ago

Mildly entertaining list.. perhaps unwise.

1point

George Jetson 8 months ago

Alligators in rio grande

0points

David Paterson 8 months ago (edited)

More than half of the posts on this thread are just plain wrong. It is extremely difficult to murder someone on their guard by giving them food poisoning, unless that food contains a deadly living disease such as botulism or cholera. Firstly, the poison will almost always taste foul at levels below danger level. Secondly, the poison will almost always induce vomiting, which gets rid of it. Thirdly, there are antidotes. I have only come across two exceptions to this rule.

-3points

LokisLilButterknife 8 months ago

And where is your PHD in toxicology?

1point

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Flora Porter 8 months ago

Some of these are interesting and deliver on the headline but it quickly descended into 'anything can kill you'.

17points

Tristan J 8 months 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.

0points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

Life is fatal. Everyone who lives will die.

12points

TheBlueBitterfly 8 months ago

Sexually transmitted and fully fatal.

11points

censorshipsucks 8 months 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.

6points

Ryan Mercer 8 months ago

Sharknados!

10points

Sky Render 8 months ago

3points

A B C the Fourth (QUIT CENSORING BP) 8 months ago (edited)

2points

Cassie 8 months ago

2points

Synsepalum 8 months ago

Just a single serial killer can kill you.

2points

Nikole 8 months ago

Not if you kill him first!

0points

TheCrazyBunnyLady 8 months ago

2points

Dan Flo 8 months ago (edited)

2points

Dan Flo 8 months 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.

2points

Enlee Jones 8 months ago

In 1974 a man in England died from Vitamin A poisoning after drinking too much carrot juice.

1point

Rocket Surgeon 8 months 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.

1point

Rae Rory 8 months ago

1point

Greenmantle 8 months ago

Mildly entertaining list.. perhaps unwise.

1point

George Jetson 8 months ago

Alligators in rio grande

0points

David Paterson 8 months ago (edited)

-3points

LokisLilButterknife 8 months ago

And where is your PHD in toxicology?

1point