TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.

https://lemmy.ca/post/62828778

TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous. - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

The lengths someone has needed to go to find out whether something is edible, not poisonous, etc…

“Damn, Mike boiled these mushrooms once and died. What if I boil them once more? Hmm, tastes okay. And I didn’t even die!”

Apparently, there is one type of highly poisonous mushroom that is fucking delicious. Then you die horribly.
You mean starvation. Historically starvation is how they learned what will and wont kill.