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76Black mamba
A photographer who survived a black mamba bite without treatment. Only later did he discover that he captured the moment he was bitten on his camera.
77. Peng Fan, a Chinese chef, died after a severed cobra head bit him while he was chopping its body to make soup.
78. Kevin Buddin, an amateur herpetologist, captured a six-foot Taipan (the third most venomous land snake in the world) alive and, after being bitten, stopped locals from killing it. He died from the bite, but the snake was milked to provide the first Taipan anti-venom.
79. Cobras preserved in Asian medicinal 'snake wine' can hibernate in the bottle, awaken, bite, and even kill you after over 3 months.
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The fact: A Roman military commander named Hannibal Barca filled jars of clay with poisonous snakes and had his soldiers throw them onto enemy ships during a naval battle to incite panic and he won.
Is false. Hannibal was not Roman he was Carthaginian; enemies of the Romans.