"selenium is a toxic metal which your body needs to survive"

[rone]

Our favorite Tasmanian devil, jvandenberg, brings us the parable of the mongoose and the citrus trees.

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*boggle*

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

A nasty pedant would point out that selenium isn't actually a metal (it's directly below sulphur in the periodic table, just to the left of bromine and to the right of arsenic), but that's picking a small nit in a fine screed of strangeness.

BTW, garlic contains traces of selenium.