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[Kirkrapine]

You're right about Papa Smurf. I've never heard of that and assumed he had the recessive disease. But that disease is also a real thing.

So I guess there are numerous ways to turn yourself blue, all by poisoning. You just don't have to fuck your cousins if you go the silver route so that's probably the way to go.

The silver poisoning is called Argyria, and apparently you still have to drink it, and it is still associated with coal slurry getting into the water.

However, now knowing this I imagine you could just eat silver and get the same effect, but you'd have to COMMIT because it works the same way, that is you have to do it for decades. This used to be more common because people would straight up drink silver thinking it was an antibiotic?? What the fuck, wikipedia? That's a thing humans did?

God I'd love to be an old timey doctor. "Idk man, you have an ear infection, you should drink silver about it."

Could be worse. Historians believe Qin Shih Huangdi, the First Emperor of China, went insane (and died) from drinking life-extending potions his Taoist physicians prescribed -- mercury-based potions! Something about the mystical properties of mercury as a liquid metal.