Monday, 31 March 2014

ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD


On This Day in Weird, March 31...

1932: Eben McBurney Byers, a wealthy American socialite, athlete, and industrialist. died from multiple cancers caused by drinking more than 1,400 bottles of a radioactive "health potion" called Radithor, consisting of radium dissolved in water. Chalk one up for the Darwin Awards.



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