Welcome to Mike’s Nerd Bytes—bite-sized stories about the strange, the curious, and the just plain nerdy!

On this episode, we’re diving into a juicy bit of science history—tomatoes. Did you know that at one point, people thought tomatoes were deadly poison?

Yep, they had a reputation as “poison apples,” and it kept them off dinner plates for ages. So, how did something so delicious get such a deadly reputation?

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