<p>When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?! <br>
Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained science cause his undoing? </p>

When you think of the world's most dangerous person, who do you think of? Genghis Khan? Stalin? Hitler?! Try a gas-huffing, pseudo-chemist that gave an entire generation lead poisoning and singlehandedly melted a hole in the atmosphere. Midgley created a ecological Frankenstein's monster, but did his smooth-brained science cause his undoing?

164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe

We've all been taught to venerate the dead. Where's the fun in that?! No one can take all their rotten secrets to the grave. Humans are just trash monsters that make mistakes, rub together and make more humans. So, let's grab some beers, bury inhibitions and dig up some dirt on history's most iconic departed.

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164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe

164 - Thomas Midgley Jr.: The most destructive human in the history of the Universe