TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.
That is because they ate out of pewter, a lead alloy, and the acidity of tomatoes leeched lead out into the food.
This often lead to lead comas, and people were thought to be dead and then buried. They for some reason dug some up and found claw marks on the inside of their coffins, and started to attach a string connected to a bell on the surface.