What you are seeing the oldest surviving film in existence. This film is called “Roundhay Garden Scene” and was shot on the single lens motion camera invented by Louis le Prince.Â
The scene shows Louis’s son Adolphe, Louis’s in-laws, Sarah and Jospeh Whitley, and Annie Hartley walking around the Roundhay garden. Sarah Whitley died 10 days after this scene was filmed.Â
 While many credit Edison with inventing the motion camera Le Prince actually invented one first, though he was never credited with the idea as he permits never went through and were lost.Â
Louis le Prince disappeared on September 16, 1880 after getting on a train in Dijon, France. His body nor belongings have never been found and many wonder what happened to who some call “the father of cinematography”Â
Dimethyl sulfoxide (C2H6OS), also known as DMSO, is a colourless liquid that is commonly used as a reactant and solvent in laboratories and in the chemical industry.
It is classified as a polar aprotic solvent, and is capable of dissolving a range of both polar and non-polar compounds, and even ionic substances as well. Being an aprotic solvent, it cannot form hydrogen bonds with and stabilise nucleophiles, causing their nucleophilicity to be enhanced. As a result, SN2 reactions are preferred in such media over SN1 reactions and elimination reactions. (The photo below shows acetone molecules instead of DMSO, but the logic still applies)
DMSO is also used as a reactant in some reactions, such as Swern oxidation, in which alcohols are oxidised to aldehydes or ketones. However, while this has been an important synthetic technique in the past, its use is now gradually declining due to the production of toxic by-products such as carbon monoxide and dimethyl sulfide.
An interesting property of DMSO is that people have noticed a garlic-like taste in the mouth upon exposure to it!
The curious case of Gloria Ramirez, in which a pungent, garlic-like smell from her body after defibrillation was administered caused 23 hospital staff to collapse, has been attributed by some to her use of DMSO as an alternative remedy for pain. It is postulated that the DMSO was oxidised to dimethyl sulfate, which is highly toxic, upon administration of the electric shocks from the defibrillator, and this resulted in the mass poisoning of nurses and doctors.
Industrially, dimethyl sulfoxide is produced from the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide with oxygen.Â
Gloria Ramirez was a housewife from California whose cause of death remains a mystery to this day.
At approximately 8:15 p.m. on the evening of February 19, 1994, Gloria was rushed into ER after affects of her cervical cancer had caused her to have an abnormal heart rate and breathing difficulties. Staff immediately injected her with several drugs: diazepam, midazolam, and lorazepam. This sedated her, but medics noticed that she was not responding to the drugs and her condition was worsening. That’s when a nurse took bloods from her arm and noticed a smell of Ammonia coming from the tube.
The nurse passed the test tube to a doctor who noticed strange particles floating around in the blood. They were “unlike anything” he had ever seen. Furthermore, staff noted that there was a fruity, garlic-like smell coming from her mouth and that her skin was excessively greasy. After this, nurses started fainting and doctors had to leave the room because they felt so ill. Nobody knew what was happening, only that Gloria’s body was emitting a foul-smelling odour that seemed to be making everybody nauseous. The staff evacuated all emergency room patients to the parking lot outside the hospital. Overall, 23 people became ill and 5 were hospitalised.
At 8:50 p.m., Gloria Ramirez was pronounced dead. She had died from kidney failure, but to this day nobody knows what caused her strange condition or if it played a part in her unusual death.
The story is even weirder, and also the ideas of what happened. Some men said that it must have been mass hysteria in the nurses even though one of them is now partly paralyzed in a leg and has problems with her head hurting from time to time.
One of the common ideas is that there was a secret meth lab going on in the building (which apparently was a thing in the area. WTF?) AND THEY PUT IN A THING OF CHEMICALS BY ACCIDENT *insert wordless screaming here*
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 
