Alaina Urquhart

And she said, quote, when he realized he hacked the tip of it off, saying it now looked as though an animal had groped, had gnawed it.

what this was because according to timothy jorgensen radium behave behaves very much like calcium because the body is accustomed to using calcium to build bone it will recognize radium as a kind of calcium and so it will absorb the radioactive material into your bone and then it will just begin to decay your bone

What the fuck?

Because it mistakes it for calcium.

And thinks it needs to like push it out to the rest of your body to reabsorb.

Oh, wow.

Calcium.

And that's why it just destroys.

Because it just gets pumped out.

That's horrifying, but it's also so fascinating.

Isn't it wild?

But this is all to say, within at least a few years of founding his company, U.S.

Radium, Von Sischocki knew radium-based paint was highly toxic and extraordinarily dangerous.

Extraordinarily.

Extraordinarily dangerous.

But he kept that little bit of knowledge from his employees.

Oh, good.

And they're just eating the paint.

Which is fucked up, to say the very, very least.

Yep.