<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cracked.com&#x2F;article_16079_the-10-craziest-scientific-experiments-ever-conducted.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cracked.com&#x2F;article_16079_the-10-craziest-scienti...</a><p>I believe no truer words have been spoken than the opening of the section on Midgley in that article -<p>&quot;Thomas Midgley Jr. Tried Really Hard to Destroy the World&quot;<p>The man was the template for a Mad Scientist and the closest thing to a super villain there has been. It&#x27;s a bit of poetic justice he died as a result of one of his own contraptions.<p>There is an episode of American Experience that has a part on the introduction of leaded gasoline that covers it better than the Cracked article, it&#x27;s just not as funny.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;americanexperience&#x2F;films&#x2F;poisoners&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;americanexperience&#x2F;films&#x2F;poisoners&#x2F;</a>