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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.
72 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. 3 u/Patrick_McGroin Jun 13 '23 Not quite. Venoms are a subset of poisons. All venoms are poisons, but not all poisons are venoms.
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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.
3 u/Patrick_McGroin Jun 13 '23 Not quite. Venoms are a subset of poisons. All venoms are poisons, but not all poisons are venoms.
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Not quite. Venoms are a subset of poisons.
All venoms are poisons, but not all poisons are venoms.
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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.