The Radium Girls: America’s Darkest Secret Lost in History

Today, most people know that radium is a radioactive substance which should be handled with extreme care. However, things were different during World War I, when people handled it with few precautions like there was no tomorrow … which meant that to some of them, there wasn’t. The most tragic tale of this carefree early approach to radium is the story of the Radium Girls — a group of unsuspecting factory workers who found out about the dangers of the element they were handling the hard way. This is their terrifying story. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Our other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: 10 of the Strangest or Scariest Political Cults in History https://youtu.be/KCWCLb1DfZc 10 Shocking Cults From Ancient History https://youtu.be/CG0Yl-PwlgA Text version: https://ift.tt/2OPz8FG Coming up: 10. Radium the material 9. Radium as a beauty and health product 8. The radium girls emerge 7. Poor precautions and planning 6. The glowing goddesses 5. The horror begins 4. The ghost girls 3. Deaths and ensuing investigation 2. Taking down Big Business 1. The legacy of the radium girls Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/2DYQd7F https://ift.tt/2DYQd7F https://ift.tt/2DYQd7F https://ift.tt/2Yv1JRX https://ift.tt/2DYQd7F https://ift.tt/2Yv1JRX https://ift.tt/2P5am2A https://ift.tt/2Yv1JRX https://ift.tt/2DYQd7F