No one dies from eating Fugu. Contrary to popular myth, eating fugu does not automatically mean a death sentence like Homer Simpson experienced in the famous Simpson’s Fugu episode. I suppose this is very similar to the one of shark - that every shark in the ocean will attack and eat any human beings - the myth thanks to the movies such as Jaws and many overly-hyped documentaries, which tend to focus only on their "aggressive" feeding behavior.
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