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Who poisoned the KGB agent?

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  • Friday, December 1, 2006 09:16 AM

    More information is needed

    ...but I'm highly doubtful that any number of photographic brushes could kill a person. Hairs get loose from brushes and people do ingest them. If some number of brushes could kill a person from radioactive polonium, than an ingested hair ought to almost certainly cause cancer very shortly down the road. I doubt anything like this would be allowed.

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