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People once kept radioactive water in their kitchens. ☢️
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Dark HistorySep 14, 2026

People once kept radioactive water in their kitchens. ☢️

People once kept radioactive water in their kitchens. ☢️ . . . Patented in 1912 and sold primarily through the 1920s and 1930s, the Radium Ore Revigator Company's ceramic crock was lined with uranium ore. Families filled its 2-gallon chamber overnight, then drank the radon-laced water as a health tonic. The contamination wasn't a defect—it was the product's selling point.

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https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/jars/revigator-1924-1926.html
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