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Isn't this dangerous? I'm imagining guts getting punched between a magnet and some metal...

I was thinking that as well, but I think the shape of the magnets have something to do with it.

For human children, swallowing a single magnet is a nuisance, but swallowing more than one is a medical emergency, for exactly that reason.

More than one with some (unknown to me) period between. If swallowed one after the other, I presume they would just stick together without much issue.

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