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  >And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring!!!

Entertaining but just about every point is incorrect.  I'm not as 
entertaining so I will only address a couple of them:

The problem with that often offered explanation is that the "safety coffins" 
with the provisions for a bell fell out of use by the beginning of the 19th 
centuiry and the term "saved by the bell" only begins to appear in the 
English 
language about 1880.  It is a term from boxing, the bell signaling the end of 
a 
round where the fighting abruptly ends.

As a chemist you know that in alloy lead does not leach out in any 
appreciable amounts in the presence of citric acid or any other such mild 
vegetable 
acid.  Tomatoes were considered poisonous because the plant looks and smells 
just 
like nightshade to which it is closely related and which is seriously 
poisonous.

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