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TIL of Erzsébet Papp, a Hungarian woman dubbed "The Nicotine Killer," poisoned 4 people with homemade nicotine between 1957–1958. Initially sentenced to life, she was later executed by hanging in 1962 after her crimes were uncovered when others were accidentally poisoned.

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