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That may work with (fictional) iocane powder in The Princess Bride, but almost all real poisons don't work that way. For example, you aren't going to become immune to the amatoxins in death cap mushrooms by having a nibble everyone once in a while.


It happens enough to have a name though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis




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