Glowing in the Dark - The Radium Girls

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On December 21, 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium (in the form of radium chloride), extracting it from uraninite. They first removed the uranium from the uraninite sample and then found that the remaining matter was still radioactive, so investigated further. Along with the barium in the remaining substance, they also detected spectral lines that were crimson carmine, which no one had yet documented or, apparently, observed. These spectral lines were being given off by radium chloride, which they managed to separate from the barium. Five days later, they presented their findings to the French Academy of Sciences.
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[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@macgaming-gs6co]

Today I Found Out is it okay I found it funny because Curie basically invented glow sticks

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

Wouldn't be hard for them to find a lawyer nowadays

[@janallenmunoz1525]

Today I Found Out Simon Hitler

[@macgaming-gs6co]

Today I Found Out I ain't Hitler it's funny

[@mattlane2282]

Today I found out the US gov is a joke and helped kill off its own people

[@PixelOutlaw]

"No, no the girls are fine. Positively glowing with radiant health." [jaw falls off]

[@SaraH-jn5db]

I feel guilty for laughing

[@GeoStreber]

Not great, not terrible.

[@klmeyer9907]

they buried some of them in lead coffins www.ttbook.org/interview/women-toxic-glow

[@Salty-cracker68]

Maybe this is where zombies came from

[@mzgigglez1992]

PixelOutlaw this comment deserves way more likes 😂

[@SraTacoMal]

I love the fact that the lady's hate for her job and therefore putting little effort into it saved her life.

[@joanthemad5894]

Srta.TacoMal same :)

[@dx1450]

She's an inspiration to slackers everywhere.

[@vawexa123]

You shouldnt do things you dont like thats the message guys

[@ANDEZ]

dan cussin me

[@MsNooneinparticular]

That's usually how it works. People diss draft dodgers but at least they live.

[@UltimateVegetto]

Jesus Christ, imagine going to the doctor to pull a tooth, and your jaw just falls apart.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Check out this guy. He didn't paint dials, but he consumed thousands of vials of radium laced water as a "health tonic". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

[@Thumbsupurbum]

Makes you wonder what new products we use today that will turn out to be horrific to your health later.(*cough cough* vape pens *cough cough*)

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

There's not really anything new about vape pens. They just vaporise a liquid so that you can inhale it. The worst case is that you bye a e-liquid that has something it shouldn't in it or a pen that over heats the liquid burning it. The latter is no worse than smoking tobacco and the former is a risk with just about everything.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

And because this guy was a celebrity, the government took notice. Up until that time, the suffering dial painters were beneath notice.

[@dokimoeraveparty]

the face i made when he got to that part, oh man

[@adiemuller9486]

"The girls are in perfect condition" --> "They were crippled already when we found them" *puts off trial to try to kill them off*

[@alansmithy85]

When the boss says its safe but they wear lead aprons and use tongs when they handle it. You know some one is lying.

[@abbie_joan]

"Its safe!!" "If its safe then why are you wearing safety gear?" "your fired"

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@abbie_joan that's capitalism for you

[@privateGOAWAY24]

And look what's going on today imagine a world a whole entire world believing in a pLandemic going to walk right off the cliff and take a vaccine 🤦‍♀️ people will never learn! STUPID SHEEPLE!

[@paulheap1982]

@@privateGOAWAY24 calm down, your foil hat will fall off.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

I recently finished reading "The Radium Girls - The Dark Story of America's Shining Women," by Kate Moore. Excellent book about their struggle against the lies of their employers, the ignorance of the medical profession and the indifference of the government, which would set the foundation for workers' health rights. And yet the same battle was fought again and again, with lead, asbestos, and so on. Even to this day businesses routinely lie to employees and the public about safety.

[@axiezimmah]

Artificial sweeteners....

[@roadmaster720]

unsafe office sex with the janitor.

[@JW-uy2on]

Yes and they are getting worse.

[@tracya1973]

Ooh sounds like a great read!

[@spookymooshie902]

It's also play

[@tracyrood9609]

My great grandma was a radium girl and my whole family now has a predisposition to thyroid tumors and cancer. My uncle has thyroid cancer and every single one of his 4 children had tumors. Another of my cousins just got diagnosed with a thyroid tumor about a month ago and we just found a mass larger than a golfball on my 13 year old daughter’s thyroid. I knew my grandma painted watch dials and they jokingly called her radioactive but my husband just showed me your video I had no idea just how bad things were. My great grandma passed away at 92 years old back when I was in school. Our family is riddled with cancer.

[@lynneporter1351]

I'm so sorry. The same is happening at the Bridgeton Missouri waste Area. It smells something bad. Residents suffer from diseases also and thats now. I know that's not the right name. Sorry

[@tracyrood9609]

@@lynneporter1351 the golf ball size mass on my daughter ended up being an 8.5cm tumor and it was papillary thyroid carcinoma. She had her entire thyroid removed a few month ago.

[@rejectevolution152]

@@tracyrood9609 Are you religious?

[@tracyrood9609]

@Reject Evolution yes I am.

[@tracymcmillan1466]

Simon, a good story for you to tell is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which kill 123 women in 1911. They also worked under horrid conditions and were locked in their factory when a fire broke out.

[@101Volts]

Isn't that the one where it was said that lovers were kissing before committing suicide by jumping out the windows to avoid burning?

[@k8tina]

My great grandmother told me about that story when I was a kid. Then I read about it during a Business Finance & Marketing class in college. Definitely would make a good topic for Simon to cover in a future video.

[@bluesira]

Also the terrible factory collapse in Indonesia a couple years ago!

[@thewanderer1598]

Tracy McMillan everyone learns that in highschool, at least if you pay attention

[@elleander1699]

@@thewanderer1598 My school never teached that?

[@ThunderthrustRawcockPhD]

I'm calling it, this will be made into a movie within ten years.

[@figjam9530]

i'll see your ten years and raise you within seven years.

[@kitsunekid16]

That would be a sad movie with a shitty ending

[@elektrotehnik94]

i'd watch that :D

[@briarrose3687]

There is a movie

[@eddiereekie2403]

Except they'll turn half of them black and make all the scientists black or trans females fighting the white patriarchy

[@wheatboi8255]

When people say we don't need regulations I think about incidents like these and laugh.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Yeap, they killed and seriously harmed a bunch of people so an extra law would have stopped them!

[@DynamicSeq]

Just don't eat paint..

[@MsBee-iw3qw]

'Triangle Shirtwaist Fire' Look into it. Spoiler: it's horrific AF.

[@Keznen]

@DynamicSeq The girl who didn't still ended up with health problems later on. Radiation exposure is always dangerous.

[@timothymclean]

"You're perfectly fine, Grace." "My teeth are falling out." "That's perfectly normal. They just need to get out of the way for the new teeth you've got growing." "...You're not a medical doctor, are you?" "I mean, _technically_ no..."

[@Victoria-bo9xk]

😰

[@wolfsmith2865]

We had a radium dial factory here in Tucson. The building was knocked down and the area is still considered to be contaminated.

[@DrB1900]

Unimaginable that people could so easily become such monsters. This wasn't a "greedy corporation", this was a group of people that decided together to let young women suffer and die, so that they wouldn't get inconvenienced. I was almost to the point of throwing up by the end of this video.

[@freespuddy]

DrB1900, I agree. I'm constantly appalled at how many monsters there are in this world, that will let people suffer and die early so they can make a few more dollars.

[@101Volts]

That's how cars were for decades. No seat belts, garbage brakes, steering columns that could IMPALE you in a head-on and steel dashboards so your jaw's smashed in if you hit it. Oh and not even your dog was safe with the engine coolant dripping out the radiator (There was no overflow tank.)

[@krashd]

I think Jack explains it best in the movie Fight Club when he states that a car company will only issue a recall notice once the potential maximum payout over a lawsuit exceeds that of the cost of the recall. It's all just numbers and lives rarely matter on the bottom line of a company's accounts.

[@mattlane2282]

@@krashd I guess you buy only local grown no GMO organic food eh? No pre packaged foods, no nothing right? I mean after all everyone knows mass grown food is not as good as local... but it is much cheaper however... unless your playing a numbers game you would be buying all that stuff all the time... guess what the gov uses the exact same deal... they assign a value to each life... they look at cost of a project and how many people will be impacted... if cost > peoples life worth... project is not done. Welcome to the real world... where I am sure you don't drive the safest car on the road because it COSTS TOO MUCH... where i am sure you don't buy ONLY non gmo organic local food...

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

*Mysteriously, My grandmother had a backwards "12 & xemiT" on her forehead, from sleeping too close to her clock.*

[@djmax45238]

Damn the whole story behind this is so sad and eerie.... It's a shame what greed can do to people

[@101Volts]

"Stay away from all kinds of greed." - Jesus Christ

[@Jobe-13]

Djmax ikr

[@GlamourNNail]

I've heard the story a few times lately. It's so sad and makes me so angry for these girls.

[@GlamourNNail]

Excellent video by the way. Very informative and well presented. One of my favorites.

[@coolworx]

Really? You're so mad? Well do yourself a favor and don't google the Triangle Shirt Factory, or the The Bhopal disaster, or the building of the Pyramids - if ya wanna go back far enough. The great bulk of average humanity has been at the behest, in body and soul, of a self appointed elite since before time was counted.

[@Silentgrace11]

At least the triangle shirtwaist factory is included in textbooks (or at least has been - I can’t vouch for ones that kids get nowadays, but it was a topic discussed at least three times in my schooling). As far as I know the radium girls is hardly covered, particularly because their experiences would overshadow the depictions of the roaring 20’s schools discuss before covering the Great Depression.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Radium is in the same column on the periodic table as calcium. This means it is chemically similar to calcium, but it's heavier and radioactive. Which means the body will substitute calcium for it. Which...you can imagine what that does to your teeth and bones.

[@itsbowmantv]

My great grandmother built bombs during WW2 and was one of the "blonde bombshell" girls. I'd love to see a video about that :)

[@leerwesen]

Yeah! Or other jobs women did during WW2 My grandma worked doing something with materials. Tarps I think. She's dead (RIP) so I can't ask. I do remember she said it gave her eczema.

[@jayasuriyas2604]

ItsBowmanTV cool

[@l.k5244]

So she contributed to killing people. I know she was doing it for a living, but there's nothing to be proud of.

[@RCWest]

Layth Alkhaer .....They were killing nazis you idoit XD... oh those poor poor nazis.

[@nutellaeatingpanda]

Layth Alkhaer Its not the ideal. We should try to avoid conflict. But if a dictator in europe is taking over many countries and killing a ton of people you need to go to war.

[@ghqebvful]

The dangers of giving ground-breaking scientific discoveries to the public without knowing what long term effects it may have and the dangers of greedy corporations, truly frightening.

[@dafttool]

Ghqebvful Oh, you mean like nuclear power?

[@ghqebvful]

dafttool Nuclear power can be amazing, I don't know. I just mean we need to study things and educate people on them before releasing them unto people.

[@jeenkzk5919]

Ghqebvful I imagine they had no idea that radium was dangerous because seeing things at a microlevel was still a new thing at the time.

[@ghqebvful]

That was part of my point. We needed to study the effects before mass producing it. Then when it was seen to be harmful stop trying to keep making money off peoples suffering and get them as much help as possible.

[@jarehelt]

Ghqebvful Corporations cant get away with stuff like this. Only governments can. If desani put lead in their water there would be a class action lawsuit on their doorstep and they would never see the light of day again. When the government puts lead in the water there is no one to sue. Us radium was a government contract.

[@indeedken]

Companies and their greed...they don't seem to care how much blood is on their hands as long as they make money

[@whoc4r3s117]

GreenSchwinnOfficial Dominator vs paternilstic society.

[@ShaunDreclin]

GreenSchwinnOfficial they only exist to make as much money as possible. Doing anything to reduce profits like following basic ethics can open you up to lawsuits from shareholders.

[@Alman556]

It isn't "companies" that do this. Its people. Just people.

[@notoriousbig3k]

they didnt know that those girl would put radium on them ....

[@quetzalcueyat]

notoriousbig3k they actually told them to use their mouths to get a fine point on their paint brushes. Also look up how the discovers died

[@571951rhoehn1]

I can remember getting my first watch that glowed in the dark. My grandmother wasn’t too happy, she asked me how many people died so I could have my "toy". Can really make Christmas a bumer!

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

Depending what year you got the watch. Let me explain, any watches made after 1968, it would contain radium because modern glow in the dark paint is made with Zinc Sulfide and Copper, but anything before 1968, then of course that would have been a concern.

[@andrewwebb7584]

I would suggest that that US Radium was run by Lex Luthor, but he tends to be a tad more subtle with his evil master plans...

[@TheSouthIsHot]

That had to have been horrifying for those poor women. When we hear about stories that happened long ago, we don't realize that those people had emotions and fears, too. They're gone now but I'm so sorry they had to endure that living nightmare of cruelty and despair.

[@emmmmmmlleee]

I live right next to Ottawa, il. They had the westclox building here and once that was closed they opened Luminous processes inc. Ottawa has a statue up of radium girls. i went to high school in Ottawa. They took the buildings down and buried the bricks in the earth. So many people here have cancer, and the bricks in the earth will still set off Geiger counters. Crazy to think I've lived in an area of history my whole life.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Same thing happened with cigarettes. Still people defend what they like as if there was nothing wrong with it ever.

[@roadmaster720]

bullshit. cigarettes haven't killed me yet at 63.

[@nutellaeatingpanda]

david wells My grandad was 54. He used to smoke daily and he died last year due to lung problems. You should quit. Get a nicotine patch or nicotine gum. Please stop before it kills you.

[@jamesluck2969]

david wells, dip it

[@speedy01247]

There is a very good reason it is still illegal to have cigarette ad's on TV to this day.

[@1953childstar]

@@nutellaeatingpanda My father died horribly of lung cancer at 53 and my mother suffered with lung cancer more than two years, finally dead at age 73.. They both smoked 2-3 packs a day. All the people who claim smoking does not kill, are delusional addicts who can rationalize their behavior.

[@camgood2437]

It's unbelievable that corporations can get away with things like this. It's truly despicable.

[@flybeep1661]

Yep, previously it also happened with lead gasoline and also with cigarettes. Climate change denying is also a much lobbied point by corporations who benefit from loose regulations. They even managed to turn public opinion sufficiently enough against climate scientists. People don't learn.

[@ChronaDecrox]

Fly Beep ? Sounds like you need to check your info. Because a lot of the info regarding climate change previously known as global warming. Has been and keeps being falsified and predictions keep being wrong. When real data concerning the temperature both in predictions and data collected shows mild differences. Hard to explain all the neunce about geological history's,how weather on other planetes in our solar system is going through similar changes. How plants grow,that things are being blow out of proportion when talking about weather/food/war/etc. All I can say is that I would like to try and save the world but...what's to save your chasing a boogey man and dancing to the tune of rich/becoming richer people/country's/company's. And that the more I learn about the world. The more I step back and go wait...something is not right. If the world is burning why are guys at the top of these green agendas getting so much richer while flying there private jets and having electric bills enough to power my house for the rest of my life. The list just keeps going. I am bad at wording things. But there is more then your are seeing going on. And that's how they want it to be...then again some of them believe it as much as you do.

[@jarehelt]

Cam Good Corporations cant get away with stuff like this. Only governments can. If desani put lead in their water there would be a class action lawsuit on their doorstep and they would never see the light of day again. When the government puts lead in the water there is no one to sue. Us radium was a government contract.

[@florascent9ts]

TheFreePantheist corporations get away with things all the time. if they can hide it or offset their waste on consumers for profits (e.g. disposable items, poor working conditions like black lung, limb loss, etc) no one will notice. no one really seems to care that Chinese or Congolese workers today face terrible working conditions, despite all the cheap goods and labor we get from them. as for lead, old plumbing work was done with lead (Pb) because it's easy to work with. the word plumbing actually comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum. there's supposed to be a protective "scale" or coating on the inside that needs to be maintained with treated water, but many local government are negligent and fail to meet their own regulations or are too stubborn to accept federal infrastructure grants and millions of people get hurt as a result. it's our politicians that are to blame.

[@pawala7]

I think what's even sadder is that it's totally believable...

[@jmabry62]

Please never stop making these high quality videos!

[@wompwomp338]

"That glow isn't natural.." "You're right, let's paint our teeth with it!"

[@RamonaLeigh]

I can remember having an old alarm clock in our farmhouse that had glowing numbers and hands when it was dark. I have always had anemia and teeth issues and arthritis etc. Holy cow..... This all makes sense to me now.

[@taylorindustries]

that wouldn't do anything to you. as long as you don't touch the numbers themselves. even then you need like 1000 clocks to kill you

[@natashanajeeb4959]

Wad it a radium dial clock

[@kayo5011]

My daily dose of History Thank you Simon

[@asdfire]

And now for another bonus fact.

[@andreitarkovsky3214]

no wonder this was sooo long

[@ClickLikeAndSubscribe]

TIL THEN, Death You could also get your daily dose of radiation if you lived back then..

[@faizalf119]

Also daily dose of outrage to asshole companies who caused death to their workers and not taking responsibility.

[@vexonen]

daily dose of internet really?

[@azwadabdullah6236]

"Even bottled radium water...I died"

[@cookiealexd123]

Did you know even today, a radiation meter picks up a crazy level above their graves.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

A Geiger counter.

[@OfficialToxicCat]

Their bodies and bones glowed. Some of them even had to be buried in led coffins from what I’ve heard.

[@lolitabubbles26]

Radium Girls is an amazing play as well. I directed several scenes in my undergrad. Powerful writing based on a completely avoidable tragedy.

[@TheSleepysleep]

*deep breath* Well... this won't help with my tooth falling out nightmares.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

I am sorry to hear that.

[@matsudaindustries2530]

Radium Paint is irl Bone Hurting Juice

[@snug_as_a_bug]

Matsuda Industries fuck off

[@h0l0_itz_m35]

It makes your body and eyes deteriorate.. what my science teacher said when my class laughed is “it’s not very funny when there jaw falls off” and all my class stopped laughing in a snap

[@snug_as_a_bug]

*Flower_ _Power* your english teacher was obviously bad

[@h0l0_itz_m35]

A. Burr it’s my science teacher and he only did it because my class was acting like it was a joke and they didn’t listen to him

[@EmeraId]

JESUS CHRIST GORDON RAMSEY

[@EvilLOON]

Simon, I know this video was posted a while ago. However, I would like to share my story. In the grand ol US of A, we use Lead Chromate as a road pigment. We now know lead is highly carcinogenic. During that time we had no idea. The pots the Thermoplastics were being melted in was really hot(400F). During the winter time, we would pop open the tops of the pots and enjoy the heat. I had no clue Lead Chromate was in the thermoplastic substance being boiled. We inhaled the fumes to keep worm. Sadly, I feel I am going to live a short life because of this. The company I worked for will plead ignorance.

[@yalelingoz6346]

Oh. =( I knew about the plight of the radium girls, but I had no idea that their employers knew about the risk and lied about it. And then worked so hard to cover their own arses at the awful expense to the victims of their malfeasance. That's just awful.

[@paulsimmons5726]

This video really gave me a warm feeling about large corporations and their treatment and general attitude towards the common worker. Sadly, to reach the top of the market share, companies often throw their workers under the nearest bus! Slavery may have been legally abolished after the Civil War but that doesn't mean it was stopped. Great video, Happy Labor Day!

[@paulbenedict1289]

Everyone sees the large corporations. Nobody seems to notice the large government that enables and protects them.

[@milorodriguez3739]

Paul Simmons well said. Fuck capitalism

[@paulbenedict1289]

Milo Rodriguez Exactly. Being poisoned in government owned socialist factory is all the rage right now.

[@milorodriguez3739]

Paul Benedict in socialism the means of production are owned by the workers, not the government. As a result pay is better, conditions are heslthier, benefits are greater... And with better pay consumerism runs smoothly and prosperously. You're thinking of communism my friend

[@paulbenedict1289]

Milo Rodriguez That's not true. In real socialism means of production are owned by elves and pink unicorns. They provide much better benefits. How dare you misrepresent true socialism you heretic.

[@ChannleDDD]

I feel bad for the Curies, they made amazing discoveries in science but at the same time dug many peoples graves without knowing it. Certainly wasn't their fault, however.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Woman: *jaw breaks off* Doctor: "You're in perfect health, don't be silly"

[@mickeythemaltipoo3756]

Can you imagine all the chemical compounds that we are surrounding ourselves with today. That in 100 years from now people will say we were stupid.

[@roshlouis8767]

Mickey The maltipoo: One simple example, lithium batteries in our phones, tablets and game consoles. Such battery can easily explode with a high intensity burst if dented or damaged or over heated. Yet we use it so close to our face and put it next to our highly flammable cotton bed when sleeping.

[@maryhennelly5680]

Mickey The maltipoo My money’s on essential oils

[@fatcookie73]

Last time I was this early was when they said radiation was good for you

[@tscherenkov9461]

well because it looks like LNT is wrong. radiation is good for you until a certain point.

[@sabbath2112]

so humans just found a new element and were like “let’s put this on our faces!”

[@Jack-dw4cd]

Mascara has bat shit in it, what do you expect

[@daisanity6457]

@@Jack-dw4cd I'm sorry it has *what*

[@Jack-dw4cd]

@@daisanity6457 hell yea brother

[@thelastoreo7963]

The symptoms sound kind of like "Phossy Jaw", or phosphorus poisoning, causing the jawbone to rot from exposure to white posphorus, used in old matches.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

That’s what the girls also discovered, that radium and Phossy Jaw were similar.

[@ntvonline9480]

Nice video for Labor Day (US).

[@wishingstar22]

"The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore is an excellent read.

[@Skitrex]

I want to pay respect by saying R.I.P to the 5 brave Radium Girls. They should get recognitions every March for the part they played in Women's history.

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

Simon:" So I really hope you enjoyed that video" me:*sobbing* great... great video

[@kd1s]

And if you think about it, we no longer use Radium to light stuff up, we use silicon, as in light emitting diodes or LED's. And we're back to pocket watches - our mobile devices used LED's to light up the screen and keep perfect time.

[@Xiefux]

kd1s for watches and other glow stuff radium is still widely used

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

Actually radium has not been used at all since the 1960s, and even tritium is rather uncommon. Speaking of light, if you've got a cheap alarm clock that runs on a single 1.5 V battery, you may still find a tiny lightbulb inside. Inefficient as that may be, it's the only way of using a voltage that low directly without having to resort to DC/DC converters.

[@PileOfEmptyTapes]

Mobile devices only keep perfect time on an Internet connection, where they can sync with an NTP server regularly. Plus getting them out can be rather cumbersome. Conventional wristwatches are anything but dead. Smartwatches are a nice gimmick but I don't see them lasting for decades. Incidentally, I have been marvelling at the kind of power consumption figures that quartz watches already managed 30+ years ago - we're talking below 1 µA at 1.55 V, and most of that actually going to the mechanics (or LCD). Truly micropower long before that buzzword existed.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

Fun fact: they still use the Zinc Sulfide compound for glow in the dark paints. They just don’t add Radium or any other radioactive elements to it. I don’t remember the exact science but Zinc Sulfide is a phosphor.

[@Gala-yp8nx]

Corporations are usually evil when left to their own devices.

[@Jobe-13]

Carter Kinoy yep

[@harrietharlow9929]

Not commonly known is that Sabin von Sochocky, inventor od "Undark" paint used to stick his arm in cans of the paint up to the elbow. As you can imagine, it didn't end well.

[@TheDarkever]

I've never seen so many Nobel prizes in a single video. Actually in a single family!

[@quartkneek3670]

If you find this topic interesting, and you like reading fiction, I highly recommend the book, "A Beautiful Poison" by Lydia Kang. It's an indie Whodunnit and one of the main characters is a dial painting "Radium Girl" caught up in a murder mystery.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

And yet despite this infamous case, there are still people who insist that having calcium in your diet doesn't actually improve bone health. Despite radium killing people so thoroughly precisely because the body mistakes it for calcium. And the bones continued to glow after death proving that the new "calcium" did indeed end up in the bones

[@GrammyDory]

Love these videos!!!! So informative and entertaining!

[@lisagunders25]

That was awesome! Thank you for the incredible insight into a pretty unreal topic from the past. You literally saved me hours right there. Love the bonus facts too!! Thanks :)

[@LexYeen]

This story and many others like it are perfect examples of why we need government regulations. Just sayin'.

[@lordelliott42]

Alexis Yeah, cause the corporation totally didn't just payoff tons of government officials and blatantly rewrite reports in their favor. No, what you need are more people with mothers that taught them basic human decency and strict punishments for people who so obviously violate it.

[@georgeapplegate3535]

It wouldn't have helped if the risks weren't established. I also wonder if those most poisoned were taking in large quantities intentionally, given radium's previous reputation for being healthful.

[@whoc4r3s117]

Alexis Cause government is effecent. They don't spend all the tax money on kick backs. A set of stairs doesn't cost 60k tax payer money gets done diy by a citizen for 600 bucks then torn out and quoted for 50k.

[@workingguy6666]

All the regulations in the world do nothing without regulators - our current system has routed the regulators, and allows corporations - and even meat producers - to 'self regulate.' You can have people write up, and pass, more regulations, but it isn't getting you anywhere.

[@ShaunDreclin]

Three Percenter the stairs you are referencing were poorly built and completely unsafe.

[@marclemieux1030]

Simon, have you ever done one on the Abacus. I know they are used for addition and subtraction , but I also understand they can do much more. I and probably others would be interested in a video about the Not so simple Abacus. If you've done one already let me know. I'm still binge watching your 3 channels since I'm a fairly new subscriber. Really love these videos. Thanks.

[@marclemieux1030]

Guo Wei Yan , yes he does. Top Tenz Net and Visual Politck. More really great stuff by my favourite narrator Simon Whistler. Check them out I'm sure they would appreciate it. 🤝

[@michellewalker8240]

Very informative. Love your videos.

[@ANTINUTZI]

... I was born & raised in East Orange, NJ, which borders on Orange, NJ ... where the Westclox Company had located their watch and clock-face dial radium painting factory. My family had 3 Westclox alarm clocks that had radium-painted dials, and I, as a kid, thought they were all kinds of Magical & Neat. Moreover, in the late '50's, my parents bought me a certain Gilbert Chemistry set-- for my "Big Christmas Gift"-- that featured an even *more* Magical & Neat gizmo called a *"Scintillometer".* This was an aluminum jeweller's magnifying eye-cup type loupe, that had a solid disc of-- you guessed it-- *radium* mounted a little distance from the glass magnifying lens. So, at night-- or in a closet, or underneath my bedsheets during daytime-- once my eyes had adjusted to the darkness, I could look through the magnifying loupe, and see teensy glittering galaxies of exploding stars, created by the photons released when radioactive particles collided with the glass lens. All these Fun facts didn't deter me, however, in the least from immediately buying one of those Super-Cool softly glowing titanium cylinder-caged glass ampoule keychains, filled with a gaseous radioactive isotope of Hydrogen, namely, *Tritium.* It's continuously glowing Life was guaranteed to be about 26 years ... and after I did the arithmetic, I figured out that I could be buried with it. As a night-light :P Considering that I'd spent my childhood playing outside every chance I got-- not giving a second thought to my country's rampant atmospheric testing of atomic bombs (along with You-Know-Whoski)-- it's a wonder I can't read comic books underneath the covers *without* needing a flashlight. I nevertheless started taking a potassium iodide daily supplement after the Three Mile Island nuclear "accident", which occurred not all that far from where I was living at the time. And of course since then, we've had Chernobyl and Fukushima. This March 20th, at 7:42am EST, I'll turn 68 ... and my doctor tells me that except for my bad knees, my internals are as healthy as those of a 35 year old. So, Thanks *So* Much, Ancestors. I'm surprised none of you were French, inasmuch the city of Autun was built directly over a massive natural deposit of *Autunite* ... which is considered to be the richest variety of ... *Uranium ore on the planet.*

[@cup_check_official]

i thought its a video about a girl band named The Radium Girls and wore glow in the dark costumes... why did i think of that lol

[@newscruise8177]

f*ck off

[@ginnrollins211]

Tell Me This Though that would sound like an awesome thing, sadly is not the case.

[@cup_check_official]

ginnrollins211 ikr? i would go to Radium Girl's concert 😏

[@blacknovember1835]

Tell Me This Dude, copyright that idea 😂 that sounds like an awesome band 10/10 would check it out

[@damenwhelan3236]

So... atomic kitten isn't a glowing baby cat then?

[@simoncoweII]

"Capitalism works!" Right. The Radium girls who died untimely deaths because of capitalist greed would feel that way if you could revive them and ask what they think. Nothing has changed, injustice because of greed still happens today. Look at climate change and oil companies. Healthcare and insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The military industrial complex. Higher education and student loans. The economy and the banks and Wall Street. The list doesn't end there.

[@Fiiischinator]

Simon Cowell This can also happen in communism, as stalin has proven quite well.

[@crystalraf]

They got pennies in the lawsuit.

[@lemaygaming6952]

@@Fiiischinator Stalin wasn't Communist.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

The college and healthcare issue can be traced back to government programs causing costs to inflate, though.

[@marthab-c5226]

Fiiischinator So? Clearly both systems are bad. We need to stop looking at this black and white.

[@tracimclaughlin6943]

I love your videos!!! Extremely informative, very interesting and never boring!!! 😌

[@musicluvrlaurie6827]

Seriously interesting video. Looking forward to watching more.

[@d_wang9836]

What does a doctor do to patients? He Helium And if he can't? He Barium

[@mattmarzula]

[Yoshikage_Kira] Funny but, not true. Morticians bury people.

[@hoser20000]

Gotta work cesium into that statement somehow......yeah!

[@omni1607]

john m Patient has drugs, but not enough for the doctor? He cesium.

[@wuestion9473]

Matt Marzula 🙄

[@jeromezhao6347]

Capitalism at its finest.

[@TheRevering]

jerome zhao definitely. Communism only killed hundreds of millions. No comparison!

[@dysonspreybar4903]

@@TheRevering and capitalism hasn't?

[@fiolds350]

Government... Allowed us radium to get away with it.

[@JustALad]

Embrace the third position \O

[@z54964380]

Dyson Spreybar Capitialism allows the existence of free press as well as democracy, as opposed to communism which solely relies on the regime being competent and benevolent to its ppl

[@monstrok]

Outstanding research and re-telling!

[@jacquecarey4481]

Oh my it’s Simon!! Just made my day! ♥️♥️♥️

[@Azonavox]

This legitimately made me upset.

[@Jobe-13]

Azonavox Same.

[@Professionalpatternrecognizer]

And now for another bonus fact.

[@coolcatrick3454]

Yes... waiting!!

[@staninjapan07]

A great presentation, thanks a lot.

[@mistressfuhrer2756]

I have heard this story so many times, but never have I heard it told this way. Thank you, Today I found out!

[@justanotherintrovert1012]

it would be good they said, it would be healthy they said...

[@realityvanguard2052]

"I hope you enjoyed the video." Ya. I am in a wonderful mood now. :l

[@a.e.hazzard8315]

I love this presentation & host! Classy Corporate Moment 😂😂😂

[@Sour313]

Thank you for giving me my information for school work! I will subscribe

[@militantpacifist4087]

I remember watching an episode about this on Science Channel years ago called “Dark Matters: Twisted But True”.

[@mrmorelove846]

Hi Top Ten Team!!! I was really hoping you guys could do a video on the Pyrex Corning ware phenomenon. And if the rumors about it being nigh indestructible are true. I understand you have a huge back log on these things but that would be an interesting topic. Keep up the fantastic work guys!! And I totally watched the making of your videos and very much appreciate the scientific stringency you apply to those topics. Hope to see something soon!! :)

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

I'm pretty sure Pyrex is just brorosilicate glass which has a higher resistance to thermal shock, meaning you can heat it faster without it exploding, but otherwise is basically the same as regular glass.

[@Silentgrace11]

It’s not that they’re indestructible. It’s more so that the kids who accidentally broke the dishes never live to tell the tale a la their parents xD

[@williamthethespian]

Fascinating. Thank you

[@LegoYodaX]

Really great episode. went places i really didnt expect

[@blgarage9519]

This video is lit

[@darksidecola4529]

Get out.

[@blacknovember1835]

Capt. Bacon *slow claps*

[@blgarage9519]

The Amazing Satanist all I'm saying is that this video brightened my day

[@levi4328]

*slow caps*

[@TristansGameRoom]

If you’re going to say the modern version of “Lit”. Please go away.

[@lonerChise]

next, how about you talk about the young women in the UK making matches and dying/getting disfigured due to phosphorus they worked with

[@krashd]

Or the 'madhatters' of Europe who got off their tits on mercury.

[@josebenitez3732]

Remembering my high school chemistry teacher, the best, who spoke of the very thing. Thanks.

[@achalasamapriya2701]

Wow !! that was really enlightening !! thanks

[@griffinwatson5197]

I was in a play about this. I played the paint's inventor Dr. Von Sochocky.

[@elizabethgatsby3442]

Griffin Watson OMG me too! It's a super interesting play, the author even came to give us a work shop.

[@thecomedyclownfish1731]

The Seven Year Twitch dude lucky!! We did it too. I was the Reporter :)

[@emilywilson6692]

Me too. I played a factory girl, reporter, One of the corporate radium company workers daughter, and a member of the public

[@neverlandnights]

I guess you could say they were painted in a bad light.

[@NocturnalNugget2]

Neverland Nights no. But yes

[@tangerinetech5300]

Ha ha ha ha

[@zaggernut5054]

I'm going to hell for upvoting that

[@SaraH-jn5db]

Stop that

[@stimpy_thecat]

*badum-tsss*

[@fallinwater321]

Thank you that was fascinating.

[@bethanne558cooke7]

My grandmother worked in the Orange NJ facility. She passed from radium poisoning after suffering terribly for years

[@ShanOakley]

Hey my baby, how she glow! It ain't syphilis, she ain't no Ho! A dose or two of radium makes her show, with a pleasant look of green flame glow!

[@roadmaster720]

nothing like a green flame glow blow, huh?

[@SaurabhSingh-mi9in]

Sure-fire way to win a Nobel - Get born in the Curie family.

[@subbss]

And then do amazing things.

[@adidasP4]

Congrats on 1 million subscribers!

[@777ElCazador]

Glad to see a shout-out for "Tab for a Cause".

[@B.H.56]

A perfect case of how business behaves in the absence of "Government Regulations."

[@OriginalEbanTube]

It's 12:45am dang it. You had to upload while I'm trying to sleep. 😂

[@newscruise8177]

they don't give a shit about your sleeping schedule you normie

[@justanotherintrovert1012]

your in the indian sea?

[@attiasprouse682]

It's 11:45 a.m. Central Time Zone, USA. Where is it 13 hours earlier?

[@OriginalEbanTube]

Curious Omelette ok

[@justanotherintrovert1012]

11:45 am is not sleep. and you said 12:45 Am which is the time right now in the indian see

[@simpleminded9885]

I did not know the last part. Thanks for sharing your understanding

[@c.b.5227]

This story is my favorite episode of The Dollop podcast. It's definitely worth a listen!

[@naseerahvj]

Catherine Branch stuff you missed in history class?

[@escott1981]

Wow! That US Radium is awful. How could they do this? Did they not have any conscience at all? That is totally repugnant! I despise the cigarette industry for all the cover up and denying they did but this Radium company makes the cigarette industry almost look good by comparison. That has to be the worst company in modern US history. Thank you for telling their story. This should not ever be forgotten.

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

Funny how you mentioned the cigarette company in a radium related video. Because cigarettes also contain a radioactive element that was discovered by Marie Curie, yes she discovered polonium (in cigarettes and radium).

[@ancalyme]

The 60fps version is giving me a migraine :/ I always have to remember to change the resolution on these videos.

[@Xiefux]

ancalyme because 30fps is soooooooooo much better?

[@ancalyme]

Yes. Especially when the movements are sped up.

[@MartyBellvue]

i HAAAAATE 60fps too sis omg!!! it’s sooooo headachey

[@DeathbyPixels]

Thank you for raising awareness about this horrible, horrible situation. May nothing like it happen again.

[@coolworx]

One of the best channels on YT.