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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Killer Apples
Message-ID: <1019@burl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 19:07:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 19:07:06 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 06:02:28 EST
References: <3012@pesnta.UUCP> <410@oracle.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Summary: 

In article <410@oracle.UUCP> aoki@oracle.UUCP (Don Aoki) writes:
>Of the seeds listed above, almonds contain the greatest amount of
>amygdalin, the most important cyanogenetic glycoside.  It is said that
>it would take 50-70 of them to kill an adult; therefore the number
>of apple seeds constituting a fatal dosage would be higher.  Probably
>about a cupful.
>
If you mean 50-70 almonds, then I'm already dead several times over.
I've been known to down 2-3 *pounds* of almonds over the course of
a couple of hours when I used to visit my father in California -- he'd
have the 10-pound bag of fresh [unroasted, unsalted, un-everything-but-tasty]
almonds and I'd go nuts...er...crazy.

*Sigh*.  Another rumor sadly disposed of.  When are we going to get the
rumor that we all laugh at that turns out to be true two weeks later?
I'm beginning to think you guys aren't too well placed in your respective
corporations/schools -- get out there and dig up some *real* dirt!

;-)
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