They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint. They were told it was harmless, so plenty of them had fun with the glow-in-the-dark paint, but we know today that radium is anything but harmless. It led to the gradual deaths of the Radium Girls, and the saddest thing of all is just how preventable it all was. From the way they were ostracized to the special methods of burial, let's take a look at the messed-up truth about the Radium Girls.
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