Animals Being Jerks (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
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Is Castor Oil a Toxin?
Ricin and abron are highly lethal, phyto toxins. Abron is an incredibly lethal toxin. You can swallow those little beads and they stay intact all the way through the digestive tract but you basically just poop them out. A guy who was going to commit murder had this idea that he would poison the guy with ricin. His roommate did not understand how incompetent he was. But there's toxic plants all over our yards.
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