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Want to know what compound from the Amazon combines 2 plants in a bit of ingenious indigenous pharmacology? What substance was considered too dangerous for study in communist countries? 

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Want to know what poison makes bones crumble and glow-in-the-dark? What living thing thrives inside Chernobyl?  Listen to find out!

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Want to know what toxin causes excruciating pain and death in minutes? Has been treated with amputation? And when petroleum jelly (brand name Vaseline) is used to treat poisoning? Listen to find out! 

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Want to know what toxin in the local diet affected Artic explorers in the 1800s but not native people? Which body part reflects brain swelling? What did the ancient Egyptians use to treat night blindness? 

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What antidote has caused more deaths than the toxin itself? Want to know what type of bite has been mistaken for appendicitis? Listen to find out! 

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