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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide
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How do you "accidentally" lace an apple with cyanide? Was that just a common thing they had lying around back then, like plutonium in 1985?
He was using a series of chemicals, including cyanide to make electronics with deposited gold. He was not proficient at it and colleagues noted he was experimenting and he frequently made mistakes.
Don't all apples have cyanide by default?
Only if you get them from dubious old ladies knocking at your door.
Jokes aside. The kernels contain a small and harmless amount of cyanides.
Not enough of it to kill you!
Haven't you heard "An apple a day is my mithridatism that keeps my assassin away"?
Peach pits