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But I’d literally die without it.

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Nice story bro.

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we also die from lack or too much “dioxide” or dioxygen

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Don’t try and justify your addiction to it!!!

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Spread awareness of the hazards of DHMO

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This terrible chemical directly caused the pressure increase that lead to Chernobyl.

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A mixture of HDO and h2o.

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It was used in some Auschwitz showers instead of Zyklon B.

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Alright let’s stop it here.

Btw there weren’t any gas showers, they were put into huge slaughterhouses that were then filled with Zyklon B.

Idk where the myth of the shower comes from.

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Pretty much, yes but the slaughter houses were said to be shower areas and were sometimes even disguised in a manner (signs and fake shower heads).

I loathe to link to Reddit, but askhistorians /u/commiespaceinvader is s legit source as Holocaust historian:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87hpr5/did_the_jews_know_that_the_showers_were_actually/

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They were told they were being given showers, and there were fake showerheads installed to continue the ruse. There were no pipes connected to the showers, the Nazis dropped canisters down chutes. The shower contrivance makes sense as a way to get them to strip “willingly” to get at any last valuables hidden in their clothes without having to bother with the bodies.

I think the popular imagination goes to that scene in Schindlers List - the very tense scene where the Schindlerjuden get shipped to Auschwitz and we don’t know if they’re going to be killed or not.

This is something we have to be careful when talking about - because all of those complicated discrepancies between memory and rumor are the muck Holocaust deniers like to throw everywhere. I found an online “uncensored Holocaust encyclopedia” on the first page of DuckDuckGo before I found this link.

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Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.

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Bro, have you seen what happens to metals when they are exposed for a prolonged period of time to dihydrogen monoxide?? This is crazy.

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Pure DHMO is actually pretty inert. It’s only once you add ions of sodium (a highly reactive metal) and chlorine (a highly toxic gas) that it starts damaging metal.

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Many many moons ago…

I was high schooler that didn’t know how to say H2O.

Please subscribe for more water facts.

Cool beans

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Everyone who drinks it will die.

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