• corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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    3 years ago

    I remember Arafat from when I was a kid but never really understood much about him. It sounds like he is cool and good?

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It feels so weird finding out everyone you were told were monsters were actually good aside from Hitler and Mussolini.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Hitler and Mussolini are only monsters because Hitler attacked France and we had to side with the Soviets. If it wasn't for that, the Holocaust would probably have been downplayed and presented as a domestic policy rather than a genocide.

          The Soviets we're the ones that publicized the gruesome realities of the camps (most were in East Germany).

      • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't think they concluded that he was poisoned. it's for sure possible but the official line is the polonium came from a lifetime of heavy smoking.

        was there more than one autopsy?

          • prismaTK
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            1 year ago

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            • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              it is found in tobacco that is grown using fertilizers which contain radium. the radium decays into a gas, rises and sticks to the plant and then decays into polonium. im pretty sure that was their theory.

          • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Tobacco farmers use fertilizer to help their crops grow. These fertilizers contain a naturally-occurring radionuclide, radium. Radium radioactively decays to release radon gas, which then rises from the soil around the plants. As the plant grows, the radon from fertilizer, along with naturally-occurring radon in surrounding soil and rocks, cling to the sticky hairs on the bottom of tobacco leaves. Radon later decays into the radioactive elements lead-210 and polonium-210. Rain does not wash them away. Polonium-210 is an alpha emitter and carries the most risk.

            This is from the epa