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It was interesting to learn that people still eat the grass pea, which was the plant containing ODAP used in the concentration camp.

Apparently what causes most deaths by ODAP poisoning is that it survives droughts better than most crops making starving people eat it. The very group most susceptible to the poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_sativus




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