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Back in the 1920s and '30s, "radium water" was a popular non-alcoholic drink in Europe and the USA. One article described a man who died from drinking it, and was titled something like "He felt much better until his jaw fell off".

From the Literary Digest, April 16, 1932:

"Eben M. Byers, Pittsburgh steel manufacturer and sportsman, died in a New York hospital--"the first New York victim," says The Herald Tribune, "of a nationally advertised 'radium water,' and the second known to the American medical profession."

https://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n106.html

People actually paid for water that came from a pot which also held a tablet of uranium (or similar).

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Or if you were lucky (?), maybe it was in your local well. Popular Science, June 1939:

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Yowzer! We live and learn...at one time Coca Cola had cocaine in it and Kool cigarettes too, why at one time leeches were the cutting edge in medicine!!! :devilgrin:
 
Oh-well...

I still have lead painted zinc from the 20's

Granite would be much safer
 
Heck, I've got some cans of 1963 MGB OE Black lacquer paint!!
 
In California they would probably have people in space suits demolish my house.

And my garage would become a super fund site...
On account of it being covered in asbestos shingles and floating on discarded oil.
 
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