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minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·1 year agoI believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
minus-squarepaddirn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoIt seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer. https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html#:~:text=Women painting alarm clock faces,brush and ingesting radioactive radium.
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWhoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all. From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoTo be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html#:~:text=Women painting alarm clock faces,brush and ingesting radioactive radium.
Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
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To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
Sadly??