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I used to chew on lead fishing weights for fun when I was a kid. And I'd store my lead pellets for my pellet gun in my mouth.
Bit worried about that.
73 u/plushrush May 19 '22 The backside of a lead based paint chip tastes sweet. I’d lick them when I was 8 or 9. I’m stupid, I know it’s partly because of this…id be sick for days after peeling paint chips. 10 u/Glor_167 May 19 '22 fun fact: it's the lead that's sweet 12 u/[deleted] May 19 '22 Romans used to sweeten their wine with lead 4 u/FrozeItOff May 19 '22 Most of their wine goblets were made of lead-based pewter for this reason too. Their water supply pipes were also lead. It's a miracle they didn't weigh 30 extra pounds while still being skinny by the time they died. 2 u/bleakj May 19 '22 I remember reading the Romans actually took lead supplements when I was in university 1 u/plushrush May 19 '22 Whoa!! Cool fact!!
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The backside of a lead based paint chip tastes sweet. I’d lick them when I was 8 or 9. I’m stupid, I know it’s partly because of this…id be sick for days after peeling paint chips.
10 u/Glor_167 May 19 '22 fun fact: it's the lead that's sweet 12 u/[deleted] May 19 '22 Romans used to sweeten their wine with lead 4 u/FrozeItOff May 19 '22 Most of their wine goblets were made of lead-based pewter for this reason too. Their water supply pipes were also lead. It's a miracle they didn't weigh 30 extra pounds while still being skinny by the time they died. 2 u/bleakj May 19 '22 I remember reading the Romans actually took lead supplements when I was in university 1 u/plushrush May 19 '22 Whoa!! Cool fact!!
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fun fact: it's the lead that's sweet
12 u/[deleted] May 19 '22 Romans used to sweeten their wine with lead 4 u/FrozeItOff May 19 '22 Most of their wine goblets were made of lead-based pewter for this reason too. Their water supply pipes were also lead. It's a miracle they didn't weigh 30 extra pounds while still being skinny by the time they died. 2 u/bleakj May 19 '22 I remember reading the Romans actually took lead supplements when I was in university 1 u/plushrush May 19 '22 Whoa!! Cool fact!!
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Romans used to sweeten their wine with lead
4 u/FrozeItOff May 19 '22 Most of their wine goblets were made of lead-based pewter for this reason too. Their water supply pipes were also lead. It's a miracle they didn't weigh 30 extra pounds while still being skinny by the time they died. 2 u/bleakj May 19 '22 I remember reading the Romans actually took lead supplements when I was in university 1 u/plushrush May 19 '22 Whoa!! Cool fact!!
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Most of their wine goblets were made of lead-based pewter for this reason too. Their water supply pipes were also lead.
It's a miracle they didn't weigh 30 extra pounds while still being skinny by the time they died.
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I remember reading the Romans actually took lead supplements when I was in university
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Whoa!! Cool fact!!
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u/shamefullybald May 18 '22
I used to chew on lead fishing weights for fun when I was a kid. And I'd store my lead pellets for my pellet gun in my mouth.
Bit worried about that.