One Drop of This Poison Could Kill the Whole World

A single drop could kill the entire world? Find out what insanely deadly toxin is powerful enough to wipe us all out in today's new video all about the most deadly substances on Earth.

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[tacitus]

The most toxic element in the world?
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[tiuqtpw]

In a recent interview, Vladimir Putin was accused of poisoning political opponents, including Alexei Navalny.
"This is complete nonsense!" Replied Putin,
"I have never considered anyone an opponent!"

[Hammerhead]

Fun Fact: Fugu is the only food that the emperor of japan is legally forbidden from eating.

[stephansteenberg]

Fun fact. Polonium is actually used in industrial anti dust devices. The reason is, that the radioactivity ionizes a part of the devices wich attracts the dust, thereby removing it from the process. Another use of radioactive materials is Americium in fire alarms.

[TheColdestWater]

"Let's hope they use that power responsibly, " might be the scariest phrase I encountered today 😅🤣

[MISTERX_]

Makes me wonder what would happen if they made a bomb out of Polonium and then Tested it in the same place the Atom bombs were Tested during ww2

[ItsAsparageese]

PSA: Please please PLEASE do NOT use poisons for rodent control, particularly not in residential areas. Poisoned living or dead pests get eaten by predators, who subsequently get poisoned themselves. This kills people's pets. This kills endangered birds of prey. Don't use rodent poisons if you're mitigating rodents that can be accessed by predators of any kind.

[NipkowDisk]

The Staticmaster brushes which I used to use back in the film photography days used polonium as the anti-static agent and were very effective. Good thing I never opened any of the spent cartridges!

[agent_w.]

The title sounds like the plot to a Comics Super Villain

[rantuoftheshadows]

fun facts about the poison found in the dart frog, the posion is not found in captive breed members if these frogs as it actually comes from specific insects they eat in the wild, this is why this poison is also found in the skin of the pitou hue (not spelled corectly) bird

[Thomas..Anderson]

0:13 10. Brodifacoum
1:21 9. Tetrodotoxin
2:27 8. Cyanide
3:35 7. Strychnine
4:43 6 Ricin
5:56 5. VX
7:01 4. Batrachotoxin
8:08 3. Maitotoxin
9:10 2. Botulinum toxin
10:24 1. Polonium

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

[metaljacket]

I'm still waiting to hear about that single drop killing the whole world

[theghostreckon]

If none of these are from ww2, historians are gonna cry

[fernandobarajas]

I got food poisoning from bad hotdogs that ended up being botulinum toxin. I was in the hospital for almost 4 weeks was semi paralyzed but luckily made it out with no long term ill effects. I was told by DR's that if treated early with anti-toxin the chances of living are 90% or better..

[justinisenberg]

"Larger pests like possums." They're not pests like rodents, they're America's only native marsupials and they're highly beneficial to us...

[BackYardScience]

You can actually buy brushes meant for taking the static off of music records that have a very tiny amount of Polonium in them. The alpha radiation from the Polonium sort of neutralizes the static and makes it to where you can clean them easier. Firestone also used to put Polonium in spark plugs back in the early 1940's. I have a collection of those, but with a half life of less than a year, you can even detect any radiation from them anymore. Your older smoke detectors also have Americium in them as the detection source.

[michaelclark]

If the last was going to be element, I figure Osmium should have been included. It actively reacts with air to create osmium tetroxide which is more deadly than hydrogen cyanide.

[brianheaton]

Dropping a duece, after eating day old Taco Bell, is pretty deadly.

[rafalsmigrodzki]

Wikipedia says the median lethal dose (killing half of the affected persons) of polonium for humans is about 0.1 microgram or 1 x 10e-7 g. Seven trillionths of a gram is 7 x 10e-12. So the dose quoted in the video is off by over four orders of magnitude. This is a truly staggering error.

[jameskonzek]

I was goofing around with a blow dart gun and I was amazed at how very accurate they are.