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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Caraway_Lad on 2025-07-23 12:47:26+00:00.

Original Title: TIL world-renowned herpetologist Karl Schmidt was fatally bitten by a boomslang (an arboreal African elapid). To get some data out of the situation, he described every symptom in detail almost until the point of death.