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I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
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It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.
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Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn’t great at all.
From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
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