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.
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hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks, woke.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They want to cancel bananas now.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
A department store still had one of these when I was a kid, but it wasn’t used. It was, however, in occasional use when my brother was very little in the early 80s. My mom has pictures of him with his foot in it.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly??