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What the red paper was
Harold explained that you often came by that smell in construction because it was used when an old building needed to make room for a new one. It was time-consuming and expensive to take down these structures brick by brick. So, to save resources, they usually blew them up with sticks of TNT, which held a lot of this nitroglycerine. He held out the red paper; “this is what’s left of a stick of dynamite.”
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