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this article in a friends-locked post (quoted with permission)
Eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert part of it into cyanide. Two cassava roots contain enough to be fatal. That makes me wonder... How did they figure it out?
Person 1: "This plant looks interesting, I'm going to eat it... whoops, I'm dead"
Person 2: "That dude died eating that plant. maybe if I beat it with a stick, then eat it... whoops I'm dead"
After like, 20 people died, it became a quest to digest this plant, for it was tasty, then someone decided to cook it but then it was undercooked, so they're like, "whoops we can't cook it" and then some dude is like "let's try cooking it MORE" and everyone is like, "what are you? retarded?" so they made him eat the final product then he became batman.