solbt@feddit.org to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 hours agoTIL about The Nobel Prize Winner Who Destroyed 40,000 Mindswww.missedhistory.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about The Nobel Prize Winner Who Destroyed 40,000 Mindswww.missedhistory.comsolbt@feddit.org to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square3linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNonconfrontational@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 hours agoWhat about the guy it’s named after, who’s invention killed tens of millions of people?
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 hours agoOr the hundreds of people it’s been awarded to despite all the bombings that they did
minus-squareBrokkr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 hours agoSupposedly he was quite upset about that and created a prize to honor people who contributed the “greatest benefit on mankind”. Some consider it a rather noble use of his fortune. However, this story may be apocryphal.
What about the guy it’s named after, who’s invention killed tens of millions of people?
Or the hundreds of people it’s been awarded to despite all the bombings that they did
Supposedly he was quite upset about that and created a prize to honor people who contributed the “greatest benefit on mankind”. Some consider it a rather noble use of his fortune. However, this story may be apocryphal.