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Daily Discussion Thread: 🐣☕🫗 Friday, 3 January, 2025 (aussie.zone)

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[–] SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thomas Midgely. The inventor of both leaded petrol and ozone destroying CFCs subsequently invented a rope system to help himself get out of bed because he had issues from past polio. The ropes killed him by strangling him.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Aside from that unfortunate end this sounds very Wallace and Gromit