A Ton of Inventors Died Due To Their Own Inventions, Chapter Two: Li Si and the Five Pains

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The world is riddled with inventors whose discoveries led to their demise. Thomas Midgley, Jr. is the world's worst inventor. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity and it killed her. Li Si invented the torture method his Emperor would later use for his own execution. In the newest installment of this continuing series, Ben, Noel, and Max explore more stories of inventors who died as a result of their own discoveries.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you so much, as always for joining us.
0:33.0	Let's hear it for The Man, The Myth, our one and only super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:40.2	It's me.
0:41.2	No, I don't actually have the crazy voice any longer.
0:43.8	I am well again.
0:45.0	Oh, no.
0:45.5	Oh, yay.
0:46.1	I'm sorry.
0:46.9	I said, I don't know.
0:48.0	I'm glad that you're feeling better, Max, that you're on the other side of the weather.
0:51.9	Is that a thing?
0:52.7	Yeah, yeah, the other side of the massive Atlanta snowstorm.
0:57.3	Oh, geez, yeah.
0:58.3	Which is a apocalypse, too.
1:00.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:01.3	Well, not quite a snow apocalypse because thankfully our fair metropolis has dealt with it better than they did in the past.
1:10.6	Now, you may be asking yourself if you're listening for the first time,
1:15.3	who was that person with a handsome voice who chimed in to talk with Max?
1:20.5	Why, it's none other than Mr. Noel Brown.
1:24.1	It was me along.
1:26.1	Very Kaiser-Sose. They also call me Ben Bolin pretty often. It's a thing I can't shake. We are back from a holiday break. And as our super producer Max alluded to, we all survived. I would say we thrived during the recent snow in Atlanta.
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