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TIL that toxicology researchers analysed "George's Marvellous Medicine" from Dahl's book in 2020, and, predictably, found out that George would have murdered Grandmother. The ingestion of the Medicine, even from the censored 2023 edition, would cause "kidney injury, convulsions, cardiac toxicity".

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