In later life, Thomas Midgley Jr aka The Bloke Who’s Responsible For More Humans Dying Than Literally Anything Else contracted polio (more like LOLio) and invented the contraption pictured here:
This doohicky allowed him to move his crippled body. Unfortunately for him, it was also his undoing, as the complicated system of levers and pulleys eventually strangled him to death.
Who would’ve thought that this innocuous looking contraption had the balls to snuff out History’s Greatest Monster?
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