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BONUS: KILLING TIME: HELLO DARKNESS

The First Degree

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The Dark History of Radium

An entire factory crew happily worked with radium in the 1920s and most of them died horrifically of radiation poisoning not too long after. A woman actually convinced doctors that she was giving birth to rabbits. The city of Strasbourg was hit by a dancing plague where people would dance uncontrollably for days at a time.

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