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My dad gave mercury toys (tilt mazes with mercury blobs in, etc) to my siblings and I. And he was a chemistry teacher!

• daymanstep 2y ago
  Elemental mercury isn't that toxic. It's the vapors that are dangerous.
  • blipvert 2y ago
    Fair point, but I still wouldn’t give my idiot 10yr old self that stuff. He never did really understand me.
  • Unbefleckt 2y ago
    I had the original Warhammer figurines as a kid that my older brother didn't want. I remember bending the metal (I was maybe 4 or 5) and putting it in my mouth for some reason like I did with lego when I couldn't snap a piece off. I ended up swallowing a piece and vomiting up a bit of eldar soon after. Still have pleasant associations with the smell of lead thanks to warhammer.