Deadly Glow - The Radium Poisoning Scandal

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1920s New Jersey. Factory women paint watch dials with radium-laced paint. Company tells them: "Lick the brush—it's safe ✨"Teeth fall out. Jaws disintegrate. Glowing skeletons haunt hospital X-rays. One woman's 6-year lawsuit vs U.S. Steel changes labor law forever.HistMuse: When corporate greed made glow-in-the-dark a death sentence.

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