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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Natalie
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![Wikipedia excerpt: Mass production
As the medical application was established, the Oxford team found that it was impossible to produce usable amounts in their laboratory.[89] Failing to persuade the British government, Florey and Heatley travelled to the US in June 1941 with their mould samples in order to interest the US government for large-scale production.[95][96] They approached the USDA Northern Regional Research Laboratory (NRRL, now the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research) at Peoria, Illinois, where facilities for large-scale fermentations were established.[97][96] Mass culture of the mould and search for better moulds immediately followed.[95]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreicl52mevr3yjbtarswfo3e7vxkc7h6nrhod5a26tezcljrlb246zq)
![Wikipedia excerpt: After a worldwide search in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of mould for production using the corn steep liquor process.[102] Six times as much penicillin could be produced compared to using Fleming's mold.[96] Pfizer scientist Jasper H. Kane suggested using a deep-tank fermentation method for producing large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin.[103][26]: 109 Large-scale production resulted from the development of a deep-tank fermentation plant by chemical engineer Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau.[104] As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.[101]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreiaj5y3vx64uiysilq4ohf3oy7zybc3ptle7w7ejez6xithn4k5vli)
![The Yule Lads are the sons of Grýla and Leppalúði. They are a group of 13 mischievous pranksters who steal from or harass the population, and all have descriptive names that convey their favorite way of harassing.[1] They come to town one by one during the last 13 nights before Yule. They leave small gifts in shoes that children have placed on window sills, but if the child has been disobedient, they instead leave a rotten potato in the shoe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreifxo6gi2jewfq67abnm42wdx2i5mfcd26d3njssxq6fsdlpyf2viq)
