@pup_hime nah, they take notes when someone poisons themselves

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@Nerts @pup_hime well in modern times a newly discovered thing can be found to be toxic by identifying known toxins in it, but in ancient times yeah it was "oh Fred got violently ill/died after eating one of those, probably don't eat it"

or "fred saw the gods after eating one of those, it's a sacred mushroom that should only be eaten under supervision of the shaman", in some cases
-F

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