“The formidable and ambitious Qin Shi Huang was the first to rule a unified China, and historical reports suggest he became obsessed with drinking mercury in a misguided quest for eternal life.

He often drank wine laced with mercury and might have died of mercury poisoning at the age of 49, the BBC reported.”

Yes and they also made rivers of mercury.

Yeah. I posted it because he wanted ethernal life with mercury and it actually did the opposite…