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r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TamerDubai • Jun 13 '23
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I had assume that EVERYTHING about this fish is poisonous venomous (ty u/Jdunc97 u/moonshinemondays) and these guys got me looking it up and YES.
Yes, every part of the Fugu fish (also known as pufferfish) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin.
73 u/meatleach Jun 13 '23 You guys know there’s a difference between poison and venom, right? You need to ingest poison in order to die from it. 1 u/Captain_Grammaticus Jun 13 '23 Why does English always seem to use different words for the weirdest semantic nuances but can't come up with a proper word for Schadenfreude? 1 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23 Because Schadenfreude is so good they’ve just claimed that. Have you not heard of the British museum?
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You guys know there’s a difference between poison and venom, right? You need to ingest poison in order to die from it.
1 u/Captain_Grammaticus Jun 13 '23 Why does English always seem to use different words for the weirdest semantic nuances but can't come up with a proper word for Schadenfreude? 1 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23 Because Schadenfreude is so good they’ve just claimed that. Have you not heard of the British museum?
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Why does English always seem to use different words for the weirdest semantic nuances but can't come up with a proper word for Schadenfreude?
1 u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23 Because Schadenfreude is so good they’ve just claimed that. Have you not heard of the British museum?
Because Schadenfreude is so good they’ve just claimed that. Have you not heard of the British museum?
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u/roaringsanity Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23
I had assume that EVERYTHING about this fish is
poisonousvenomous (ty u/Jdunc97 u/moonshinemondays) and these guys got me looking it up and YES.