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TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide

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7VMP TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.
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