Brazil nuts are radioactive
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anyone working in the nuclear industry can't eat them or they set off the sensors
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Honest.
The nuts contain radium in very small quantities as the trees absorb this out of the ground.
I doubt anyone can eat enough nuts for it to be dangerous but it does make you think
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