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In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: D.A. Noe, Nicholas Smith, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Fatima Iqbal ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1175560-overview https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeremy-piven-mercury-poisoning/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/16/japan.jonathanwatts https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10812838 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550196/pdf/bmjcred00586-0061.pdf http://www.cas.org/news/insights/science-connections/mad-hatter http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/doi/pdf/10.3109/10408449509089885?needAccess=true https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818150020.htm http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6125/1332 http://www.environmentalhistory.org/mercury/history http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jcqmm Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marushima_Port_Minamata.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MadlHatterByTenniel.svg