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The Radium Girls were told to lick their brushes. The paint was radium

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Starting around 1917, young women painting watch dials in New Jersey were told to lick their brushes to a fine point. The paint glowed in the dark. It was radium. The company's own chemists used lead screens while the women worked unprotected. Five of them sued, and none could raise an arm to take the oath. Send this to someone from New Jersey. Narrated with an AI voice. Every fact is sourced on Casepin.

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They were told to lick their paintbrushes to a fine point. The paint glowed in the dark. It was radium. Starting around 1917, young women painted watch dials in New Jersey. The company's own chemists used lead screens. The women worked unprotected. Their teeth came loose. Their jaws crumbled. Five of them sued. None could raise an arm to take the oath. Their fight helped build the worker safety laws we have today. Did you know their names? Every source is on casepin dot org.

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