December 21: Researchers in Canada are to replicate food canning techniques from the 19th century that could unlock the mystery of what killed the crews of the Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
The researchers from McMaster University tested a 158-year-old can of ox-cheek soup and detected levels of lead that were “off the scale”.
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