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TIL: Marie Curie is buried in a Paris coffin that is lead lined. Her body and notes are radioactive because she worked with radium – a chemical a million times more radioactive than uranium. Her notes are expected to be dangerously radioactive for the next 1500 years.
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Not radioactive but if you’re interested in anything like this check the story of the girl who got mere drops of dimethylmurcury on her gloves.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501147/retrobituaries-karen-wetterhahn-chemist-whose-poisoning-death-changed-safety
And that’s just for her mixtape.