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minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoPhew. I came to the comments for this hope.
minus-squarepaddirn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.
I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.
Sadly??
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.