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I don't know why I thought about this, but I was thinking it was a little bit off topic, okay, so bear with me. But there's a story that I had heard at one time that the guy that invented penicillin was actually a black band later on after he invented it, where his family members were denied that penicillin and died without getting treated. And so I looked it up real quick and I was totally wrong. The penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist in 1928. And how it got turned over to that story was in 1943, this is actually terrible, Kevin. I mean, this is a sad story, but 1943, a black soldier named Private Eddie Randolph, sometimes misattributed to the relatives of the penicillin researcher, died from a treatable infection because he was denied penicillin, which at the time was being reserved mostly for white soldiers. So he was a black private and he got sick and he was denied the penicillin just because he was the wrong color, even though he was in the same frickin' army. That's terrible.