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🗓️ 15 December 2024
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Ancient armies set traps of hallucinogenic honey and mead to incapacitate their enemies. Learn how mad honey works in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/history-hallucinogenic-mad-honey-warfare.htm
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1:26.6 | In 2008, a middle-aged couple decided to spice things up by |
1:31.5 | eating raw honey gathered from near Turkey's Black Sea and then ended up in the hospital with |
1:37.6 | symptoms that mimicked heart attacks. The culprit, mad honey poisoning, a little-known ailment that has brought down ancient armies, |
1:46.6 | and in modern times, been rumored to have a hallucinogenic effect that increases sexual performance. |
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