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An ad selling radium hand cleaner, printed in The Salem News, Ohio (1909)

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An ad selling radium hand cleaner, printed in The Salem News, Ohio (1909)

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I hope they were lying about what was in there
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
  
  They probably weren’t
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    I still am too freaked out to wear the radium dial watch I inherited from my grandfather.
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    This is a case where being dishonest would’ve been better for everyone
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  They were. It’s actually uranium.

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