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Scientists have discovered the cause of the macabre "grinning corpses" found preserved in Sardinia: the hemlock water-dropwort plant, possessed of a Botox-like effect, which ancient Phoenician colonists "administered to elderly [What? -Ed] and criminals before ritualistically killing them." [LiveScience]
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