Radiation Painted On Clock Faces and How It Caused Sickness

Makes you sick when you think about it.

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A century ago, glow-in-the-dark watches were an irresistible novelty. Women painted alarm clock faces at the Ingersoll factory in January 1932. Known as the “Radium Girls,” these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting radioactive radium.