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Researchers Think They've Uncovered A Link Between The Deaths Of Three Different Presidents

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Researchers Think They've Uncovered A Link Between The Deaths Of Three Different Presidents

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Something odd went on with three of the four United States presidents elected during the 1840s.

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William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor all died either while in office or very shortly after leaving. This video from Business Insider tells their stories and gives a short forensic analysis of these three unexpected deaths. Ideas that their deaths could be coincidence were recently brought into question after a medical study reanalyzed the death of William Henry Harrison using his physician’s journal.

Conspiracy theories aside for a moment, what could have linked all of these untimely demises? Find out below.

 

 
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