This week, we’re going all in on body horror and covering one of the nastiest industrial poisoning stories ever. Starting in the 1910’s, radium became a hot consumer product that would eventually kill an untold amount of people. And the worst hit by this poisoning was a group of painters called The Radium Girls.
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SOURCES:
-Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 2017.
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