In factories across the United States in the early 20th century, young women were being employed to use an exciting new glow-in-the-dark paint to decorate clock and watch faces. But little did they know that one of the paint’s key ingredients, Radium, was one of the most dangerous substances a human could ingest…this is the tragically strange but true story of the group of ladies who came to be known as The Radium Girls.
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