By Carl | Published: August 31, 2008
1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design. Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to learn what they’d done to the ozone layer. 260AC: Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle and captured [...]
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The killer idea, death by invention