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Jaimie Kay

Leeds' 'danger room' where deadly items with potentially fatal risks are carefully locked away

Some deadly discoveries have been made at a collection in Leeds city centre.

The Leeds Discovery Centre is home to more than a million objects and is used to store parts of the Leeds collection which are not currently on display. The items span tens of millions of years of world history and contained inside Store 2, there are some deadly finds.

Among the creepy crawlies, the centre also houses a collection of radioactive materials, which each need testing regularly with a Geiger counter. There is also a collection of giant teeth once belonging to a Megalodon, a 50ft, 60 tonne, prehistoric shark that lived more than 20 million years ago.

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