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    "The formidable and ambitious Qin Shi Huang was the first to rule a unified China, and historical reports suggest he became obsessed with drinking mercury in a misguided quest for eternal life.

    He often drank wine laced with mercury and might have died of mercury poisoning at the age of 49, the BBC reported."