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After Glow - 90 Years Ago Workers At The Waterbury Clock Company Began Dying After Painting Radium On Clock Dials
The workers, mostly young women, used their mouthes to form sharp points on the brush that they would dip in and out of radium paint.
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People actually used radium toothpaste and suppositories, not to mention inserting tubes with radium into the urethra to treat impotence:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks
Must have been a glowing experience.
It must have been! What a find!