Om avsnittet
Join Kelli as she gives the history of the Radium Girls - young women who worked in factories painting watches and dials with paint containing RADIUM. The girls were encouraged to use their lips to keep the brushes pointy, and as a result, they were consuming alpha radiation particles from the radioactive radium. The result? Disintegrating bones, rotting necrotic tissue, and painful death.Follow the APHOUT podcast for more stories! It also helps me grow the show!Sources referenced:The Radium ...
Senaste avsnitten
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler
2024-09-29 • 29min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Delphine LaLaurie Murder Mansion
2024-09-15 • 25min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Mignonette Shipwreck
2024-09-01 • 27min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Spanish Inquisition
2024-08-18 • 30min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Great Plague and Great Fire of London
2024-08-04 • 27min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Black Death
2024-07-21 • 40min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Hindenburg Disaster
2024-07-07 • 31min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
2024-06-23 • 31min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Medusa Shipwreck
2024-06-09 • 39min
A Popular History of Unpopular Things
The Victorian Houses of Death
2024-05-26 • 29min