stackyFACTSIn the early twentieth century, people thought it was incredibly stylish to aggressively infuse their serving dishes with literal radioactive isotopes just to make them glow bright green.
In the early twentieth century, people thought it was incredibly stylish to aggressively infuse their serving dishes with literal radioactive isotopes just to make them glow bright green. Uranium glass contains enough unstable material to actively register on a Geiger counter, constantly throwing off slight radioactive decay. It is the only antique dinnerware that actively bombards your snack with tiny subatomic particles.
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