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Your grandparents may have brushed with radioactive toothpaste. 🦷
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Dark HistorySep 04, 2026

Your grandparents may have brushed with radioactive toothpaste. 🦷

Your grandparents may have brushed with radioactive toothpaste. 🦷 . . . German manufacturer Auergesellschaft sold Doramad toothpaste from the 1920s containing radioactive thorium. Ads promised the radiation would 'gently massage' gums and give teeth a bright shine. It was pulled from shelves only after WWII ended β€” decades after users had been swallowing microscopic doses every morning.

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