Goalie_deacon t1_ixos2ag wrote
Reply to comment by ZwischenzugZugzwang in TIL a few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerin for this heart condition. by Ganacsi
Okay, Nobel didn’t invent nitroglycerin. Dynamite was Nobel’s invention to make handling nitroglycerin safer. He created the Nobel Peace Price because his fear that he made a great weapon. None of that makes this as interesting as he created dynamite after his brother died from nitroglycerin explosion. What killed one brother kept the other brother alive a bit longer, and a legend.
ZwischenzugZugzwang t1_ixos4u7 wrote
Okay. It was interesting to me notwithstanding everything you said.
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