The Assassin's Teapot Is Weird

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I want an assassins tea pot literally for the sake of tea AND milk being in together and being all “oh, you want some milk with your tea? Sure” grabs same tea pot that tea poured from

Here's a tip: While your enemy is distracted looking the cool demonstration of the teapot, you hit him with a bat.

I want one of these, just so I can ask my guests whether they want coffee or tea and serve both from the same pot. Seems like it would be a good party trick.

If you don't want to accidentally consume some of the poison, make sure the poison is poured in the bottom space of the teapot. I see that the the liquid from the top portion does mix a little at the tip with the bottom portion

"Don't worry about the poison, there is no poison." This is how I start all my tea parties.

Me, the worst assassin: "Wait, which hole was for the drink without poison?"

Me: “…wait I forgot what hole the poison is” The person I’m trying to poison: what…? Wait a minute

It would be much better if you only had a small secret chamber and one murder hole to cover up. Needing to fill the teapot through the murderholes makes it super awkward to use, it would work much better if you just had a tiny container for the poison and just mixed it in to the bulkier liquid as required, with most of it just being a regular teapot with the detachable lid and everything. Plus, this way it doubles as an actual teapot you can just use whenever.

I don't know about you, but I see this as being able to use magic tricks at kids birthday parties. One kid wants juice, one wants water, use the same pot. Blow their little minds.

Oh, riiiight. The teapot. The teapot for Kuzco, the teapot chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's teapot. That teapot?

This is especially interesting because one of my travel mugs doesn't allow me to actually drink my tea. The liquid gets stuck at the mouth of the lid because there's no tiny air hole on the lid (like my other travel mugs have). Unintentional & undesired magic trick 😆

If this guy was my teacher back in the day, I would've learned a lot more. This guy is fascinating.

Pro-tip for assassins: First pour yourself the non-poisoned drink. You don't want any poison residue left on the spout to get mixed in your drink.

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this is the most intriguing exploration and demonstration of science i have ever seen on youtube besides the backyard scientist. you are an amazing speaker and at explaining things

"if you put your fingers on different holes different liquids come out" 💀💀💀

One of the times where “oops wrong hole” could literally kill someone

I never heard of an Assassin's Teapot, I understood everything about it on the thumbnail. And yet, I watched the whole video. You won this time Mr Mould.

This is called 鸳鸯转香壶. Based on Chinese wiki ‘Baidu’ it first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Year 241 BC, after the death of Emperor Hui of Han, his son Liu Gong was made emperor. The late queen Lü Zhi, fearing that new emperor’s mother might vie for power with her, used this kind of pot to hold two types of wine, one of which was poisoned. At a banquet, the emperor’s mother was poisoned to death with this wine. By the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor Zhao Guangyi used this pot filled with wine to entertain another emperor Li Yu. Legend says the fragrance of the wine masked the poisoned wine, leading to Li’s death in Bianjing. Since then, many legends related to this pot have emerged.