In some cases, victims are left with a crooked grin, due to involuntary muscle contractions You must have heard about poisonous plants, but have you ever heard about a plant so deadly that it ...

It is toxic to humans and pets. Oddly enough, the Sago, despite its structure, is not a real palm tree. It is a cycad plant native to Japan with ancestry dating back to prehistoric times.

Another plant you really want to avoid touching is the wild parsnip. These look related to the aforementioned giant hogweed, ...

tree-like shrub native to East Asia" and says it is "commonly planted around homes and walkways." "Because it's not native to the area, animals aren't familiar enough with the plant to know or teach ...

However appealing this tack may appear, this is the fruit of a poisonous tree, and people bite on it at their peril. The 1973 convention was never ratified by any Western liberal democracy, for ...

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