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A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated (www.sciencealert.com)
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[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 50 points 2 months ago

Radium stands for radically yummy

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

I always buy Ray-D-YUM brand radium!

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Makes one wonder about the content of that "Radium Girls" book.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

It is based on real people. Those girls are why many of the labor laws we have in the US exist.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

And their jaws literally desintegrated. And they still had to fight for their bosses to change anything. Also, the non-toxic alternative was only slightly more expensive.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Radium paint was used on watches into the 70s despite what happened to the radium girls in the 20s-30s.

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