Random #plant lore in the morning: calabar beans look and taste like other legumes, and are a deadly poison. They're sometimes called ordeal beans; they were used in witch trials by ordeal - if the accused survived the lethal dose (half a bean), they were found innocent #Folklore
Oh, and the antidote to calabar bean poisoning? Atropine!

...

'Doctor, this patient has ingested a deadly poison!'

'Well, let's pump them full of that other poison and make it a deathmatch.'
Also, there's a rather simple way of cheating in that ordeal... If you swallow the bean whole, without chewing it first, there's a greatly increased chance of vomiting and therefore surviving the experience and proving your innocence.

The lesson here: Don't chew your toxic food.
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