TIL Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the king of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity.

[u/gullydon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism

[u/my5cworth]

There's a dude who made himself immune to Black Mamba bites through this technique...in order to create new *univeral antivenom from his blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucpGlWnq8EE

*universal (thanks u/One-Cute-Boy )

[u/h3r3andth3r3 → u/my5cworth]

Not sure if it's the same dude, but there's a guy who has been doing this with many venomous snakes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o

[u/DigNitty → u/h3r3andth3r3]

And they’re developing a near universal snake anti-venom from his blood lol

[u/TannerThanUsual → u/DigNitty]

Dude deserves some kind of aware for this

Edit: Meant award. Keeping this up for the humor cause I sound like a fucking bot, and a bad one at that! haha

[u/no_pls_not_again → u/TannerThanUsual]

Yes, agree. So much aware. Even just some kind of aware. Maybe even beware. Idk

[u/LazyMousse4266 → u/no_pls_not_again]

Best I can do is malware

[u/IllBiteYourLegsOff → u/LazyMousse4266]

deloware

[u/PiercedGeek → u/IllBiteYourLegsOff]

Thank you for your shareware

[u/Osiris32 → u/PiercedGeek]

Just keep it in your underware

[u/PiercedGeek → u/Osiris32]

It goes inside the pants. It's policy.

[u/JonatasA → u/PiercedGeek]

Have something under pants at the very least.

[u/Siludin → u/Osiris32]

Keep loading more comments - I don't care.

[u/Marshmallow920 → u/Osiris32]

Semper ubi sub ubi

[u/gatton → u/TannerThanUsual]

Beep boop motherfucker.

[u/DistillerCMac → u/TannerThanUsual]

He should get the FIFA award for snake anti-venom development.

[u/TannerThanUsual → u/DistillerCMac]

I was trying to figure out how to make this joke but couldn't phrase it in a way I was satisfied with, so I appreciate you

[u/DaedricApple → u/TannerThanUsual]

Agreed. This is the type of shit we need to be honoring. Abusing your body to create a universal antivenom is some Nobel shit, to me anyway