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Sep 2020
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Giulia Tofana: World's Most Dangerous Ap...

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Giulia Tofana was an Italian apothecary known for her beauty, her secrecy and her poisonous proclivities. If the numbers are all to be believed, she may be the most successful serial killer you’ve never heard of.

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