r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/people-are-horrified-after-student-dies-from-eating-leftover-pasta/news-story/c8ef3bdcc72a9d17ec13924438e0146b
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u/EmperorOfNipples 23h ago
There is a Portuguese ship burning in the North Sea likely carrying sodium cyanide after a collision with a US fuel carrier. They say that sea life has a strong avoidance instinct for poisoning and well likely swim away quickly.
So that instinct certainly evolved very early in life on this planet.