The Time We Thought Eating Radiation Was A Good Idea

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Radium Chocolate, Radium Toothpaste, Radium Cigarettes and even radium condoms!
The discovery of radiation brought about all sorts of radioactive quackery. But none was more dramatic than the case of the Radium Girls.
Let me tell you their story.
This video was heavily inspired by Oversimplified and Bill Wurtz (Especially his history of the entire world, I guess)
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I am a German physicist raised in Chile. Although I am not a historian, I love physics and I hope that we can learn together and that I can provide some extra entertainment/knowledge.
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By Kevin Mcleod:
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I Knew a Guy
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Minima
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Fun story about a golfer named Eben Byers: after injuring his arm in an accident in 1927, he was prescribed Radithor, the radium water mentioned in this video. He reportedly drank several doses a day until he began experiencing symptoms similar to those experienced by the Radium Girls (headaches, losing teeth, disintegrating jaw). He died in 1932, but his body was literally so radioactive that he had to be buried in a lead coffin, and when it was exhumed over 30 years later in 1965, it still contained 225,000 becquerels of radiation, 51 times as much natural radiation is present in a human body and equivalent to about 40 pounds of uranium in radioactivity

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