TIL that in 1845, Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition aboard HMS Erebus and Terror vanished. The ships were discovered over 170 years later, and researchers believe lead poisoning from canned food and poor water filtration contributed to the crew’s fate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%E2%80%99s_lost_expedition
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