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Hollywood depicts poisoned blowgun darts and arrows as acting almost instantaneously on humans, either killing someone or knocking them unconscious without fail. How realistic are these depictions, and what plants and animals were the poisons gathered from?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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