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Radium Girls Memorial Park

Orange, NJ

A public park and memorial stand near the former U.S. Radium Corporation site where women painted luminous watch dials with radioactive radium paint. Their illnesses and legal battle became a major turning point in occupational-safety history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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