Fact of the day: Did you know almonds used to be poisonous?

[Ladios]

Almonds, a delicious addition to cereals, cakes, candies, and great for just snacking, were once deadly. Some still are.
Bred from a drupe related to the peach, the original bitter almonds would kill you, and were slowly bread for sweetness. Most grown almonds are descended pretty much from one tree they found with a genetic defect that made it's almonds tasty instead of deadly. For quite some time until recently many popular recipes would still call for the deadly bitter almonds in combination with some sweet ones.

I like almonds but I find it interesting that once someone eating almonds would have been considered crazy.

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[Maxwell.]

so that's the feel when someone activates their almonds

death

[Kamutog]

I have a really freaking bad allergy to almonds so they basically are still poisonous to me anyway.

[IkeTheGeneric]

thats how the almond joy gets you, they lure you in with their sweetness and then they kill you in your sleep

[§am§on]

It makes sense that almonds were poisonous. If someone wanted to eat me, I'd also wanna be poisonous so that cannibal douche-bag would suffer for his crime.

[hodot]

they still are if you don't activate them

[ThatRandomGuy]

Almonds were slowly turned into Bread?

the original bitter almonds would kill you, and were slowly bread

[Ipquarx]

so that's the feel when someone activates their almonds

death

oh my god

[Cortunix³]

[Ladios]

Almonds were slowly turned into Bread?

Almond bread is tasty. That will be tomorrow's fact of the day.

[§am§on]

That will be tomorrow's fact of the day.

could the day after tomorrow's fact of the day be about fezzes?

[hillkill]

eww almonds

[Lego lad]

corn used to be purple until people started breeding it for the tastier yellow color

[§am§on]

eww almonds

almonds will kill your hill

[ThatRandomGuy]

Can tomorrows fact be about how an octopus can crawl through your intestine and come out?