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the man who ate a spoonful of petroleum jelly a day to prove it wouldn't kill him.
means robert chesebrough was the chemist who discovered petroleum jelly in oil rigs and turned it into vaseline.
from born 1837, brooklyn; in 1859 he traveled to titusville, pennsylvania during the oil boom and noticed rig workers using a paraffin-like residue called rod wax to heal cuts and burns, so he refined it into a marketable product.
self-experimentburned and cut himself daily to test it
patent yearpatented vaseline process in 1872
lived todied at 96, ate it daily
name originvaseline from german wasser plus greek elaion
for instance
vaseline — still sold worldwide, unilever brand today
rod wax — the original oil-rig gunk he refined
titusville pennsylvania — site of the 1859 oil rush discovery