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In the early decades of the 20th century, young women in Orange, NJ, and Ottawa, IL, found well-paying jobs painting watches and dials with a luminous substance made from radium. The detailed nature of the painting required that the girls twirl the bushes in their mouth to form a precisely pointed tip. Though many people believed that radium was a miracle cure for various ailments, the reality was that the radioactive radium was poisoning the girls. Their teeth...Log In or Sign Up to Read More