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TIL of King Mithridates of Pontus, who ingested increasing amounts of various poisons in order to prevent his assasination by poisoning. When surrounded by enemy soldiers, he tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself with all of the poisons he had on hand but failed because he was immune.

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