The book that killed hundreds of people (tempodeconhecer.blogs.sapo.pt)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

tl;dr

in Victorian times the author wanted to warn people about the arsenic in wallpaper and its dangers, so he published a book of wallpaper samples with arsenic that then itself poisoned and killed people who handled the book

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

"Hey, grenades are dangerous."

Hands you a grenade with the pin pulled.

(At the funeral.) "Told you."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

ha, the logic is a bit wacky, but I can also see how maybe publishing a book like that might cause a moral panic that could result in regulatory action (and to be fair that's how the FDA was created, after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle resulted in a moral panic)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Dead link

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

An SCP breached containment of fiction and escaped to real world.

this post was submitted on 18 May 2025

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