00:00Did you know there were factory workers whose bones literally glowed in the dark?
00:04In the 1920s, hundreds of young women worked in radium dial factories.
00:08Their job was simple – paint-watched faces with glow-in-the-dark numbers.
00:12The paint contained radium – pure radioactive poison – but nobody told them that.
00:17The supervisors taught them to lick their brushes.
00:19It made a finer point for detailed work.
00:22With every lick, they swallowed deadly radiation.
00:25The women called themselves the Ghost Girls.
00:27In dark rooms, their hair glowed, their clothes glowed, their breath glowed green.
00:32Then their teeth started falling out, their jawbones crumbled.
00:35Some women's entire jaws just fell off their faces.
00:39The radium was eating them alive from the inside.
00:41When they tried to sue, the companies fought back hard.
00:44They claimed radium was harmless – even healthy.
00:47The legal battle lasted years.
00:49Most of the women died before seeing justice.
00:51But their sacrifice changed everything.
00:53The radium girls' case created the foundation for workers' rights in America.
00:57Their glowing bones became the light that exposed corporate lies forever.
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