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The Egyptian man extracting venom from scorpions

Mohamed Boshta abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions across Egypt and extract their venom.

His modest beginnings soon led him to start a successful and lucrative business in farming scorpions and snakes and exporting their venom to various countries around the world
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