TIL Iraq 1971 poison grain disaster has left 459 dead and 100,000 brain damaged. Farmers consumed grain treated with mercury fungicide, because they didn't understand English/Spanish warnings or skull/crossbones sign

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[–]CarlDung 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Goddamn. And we are sharing the planet with this kind of people and still think we are equal in some sense?

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No no, all cultures are exactly the same.

[–]CarlDung 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Even the worshippers of Baal who sacrificed babies for sky gods? Or Aztecs who spilled human blood on vegetables to make the food divine?

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ESPECIALLY them.