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Don't worry, they knew that the lead was a bad idea when they started. Leaded gasoline should probably be considered a crime against humanity.

I saw a documentary about that - doctor travelled back in time to give a kidney dialysis patient a pill to get her kidneys working again.

Some of both I expect. I don't blame them. The recipe for gun cotton they kept quiet too. Because well warranted reasons.

No, it was spiritual forces. SMH when will science learn

Is this the origin of "Liar liar pants on fire"?

I've said this a few times; at some point we'll look back at surgery as barbaric. People from the future will find it abhorrent and astonishing that we used to cut people open to make them heal.

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That’s what she said.... sorry I hate these jokes but it was irresistible

I wouldn't say "not known about" but Martin Luther must have been pretty hardcore.

Not because of any feeling on any religious findings one way or the other, but when you start calling out the church in the peak "burning people alive who call us out" era. I mean... ballsy

I love that smell and I can’t wait til I have it regularly. I’m a big fan of PA winter when it’s snowy but still nice with a few jackets on.

They didn't say it to avoid people doing the same or to avoid big chlorate and their high powered lawyers?

Gasoline used to be sold at drug stores (late 1800s) and was used as a delousing agent. It was a byproduct of refining crude oil (they were mainly after kerosene to use as lamp oil). When Bertha Benz took her famous road trip in the first automobile in 1888, she topped up at drugstores along the way.

COOL. This is so cool. Michigander here and a history nerd so this is the content for me

Yeah and they very pointedly made sure not to say Sodium Chlorate.

So take that corporate lawyers.

If you’re a YouTube person (rather than a book person like other commenters) check out the Maritime Horrors channel. They talk about ships that sank or had some other crazy thing happen to them, and actually a lot of the videos happen to be Great Lakes cases. Like way more than you’d expect actually given that there’s so many other bodies of water in the world lol but they’re interesting.

They might have split up or they might have capsized

They have cars that don’t run on gas now, it’s wild, you should look into it

A biologist friend once told me that many small rodents cannot tolerate certain antibiotics including penicillin.

Thus if this first great antibiotic had been required to be tested as thoroughly as modern pharmaceuticals are we likely would not have it until far later, possibly too late to treat infected WWII soldiers & thus put at rist the allies winning the war.

I believe Superior is 1300+ feet at it's deepest.

Probably all the electronics that are rushed to shelves and burn peoples houses down.

Or wrapping most of our food in petroleum biproduct

I was kid in 1975 and back then my family had a boat that we sailed on the Great Lakes. One of my lasting memories from those days was seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald the summer before it sank. It was easy to remember the Edmund because of its unique name and, as the song says, “it was bigger than most”.

Then they decided putting lead in it was a good idea. Guess that made for good serial killer podcasts, so we got that.

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