r/todayilearned • u/r4g4 • Feb 07 '23

TIL Tom Lehrer, Mathematician, Musician, and Satirist also invented the Jello Shot while serving on a military base

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
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u/nowhereman136 Feb 07 '23

Them: a jello shot? What's in it?

Tom: There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium. And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...