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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to todayilearned@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

TIL people used to clean their clothes with gasoline as a form of 'dry cleaning.' And yes, lots of people died.

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TIL people used to clean their clothes with gasoline as a form of 'dry cleaning.' And yes, lots of people died.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to todayilearned@lemmy.world · 10 months ago
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Dry Cleaning with Gasoline at Home 1930s
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Drycleaning dates back to ancient times, probably beginning with the advent of textile clothing itself. There are many stories about the origin of dryclean...

That is not the only warning film not to do it because people were dying all the time: https://archive.org/details/more_dangerous_then_dynamite

Some headlines of people making the worst mistake of their shortened lives:

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19330315-01.2.175&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN|txCO|txTA--------0------

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilkes-barre-times-leader-explosion-caus/13045180/

https://post-gazette.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-gasoline-caused-two/91356754/

Occasionally, they got lucky and survived.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hot-springs-weekly-star-cleaning-clothes/124927252/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/aug/29/100-years-ago-today-in-spokane-woman-using-gasolin/

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    10 months ago

    Super interesting. You make me think back to The Chemical Workers Song about guys with jobs like you had. The song always gives me goose bumps.

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