@twiggymcstumpwizzle: #ring #radioactive #loneranger #atomic #twiggymcstumpwizzle

Lowkey :

Today the car manual says don’t drink battery acid. We were different!

Tylerwilliams :

General Mills offered the "Atomic 'Bomb' Ring" in 1947 to promote Kix cereal.Children received the ring by mailing 15 cents and a cereal box top.The ring functioned as a spinthariscope, allowing children to see flashes of light produced by polonium-210 particles striking a zinc sulfide screen.Polonium-210 is a highly radioactive isotope; however, it has a short half-life of roughly 138 days, meaning surviving rings are likely no longer radioactive.

logger :

I don’t thin they put plutonium in cereal boxes , it was expensive and top secret material at the time.

guissipi :

its real I got one for each of my 12 fingers

LoveBug :

if you don't think this is real that's a real laugh, you should check out the science kits that have plutonium in it and all the kids used to get them for Christmas

Matt Moore :

Shoe stores had a radioactive foot measure.That was still used in the sixties

kurds :

I still have mine

amysmith3732 :

I've said it once, I'll say it again, us "Boomers" were used as guinea pigs for safety guidelines.

designerdoc :

Boomers were OFF the charts!

richardford18 :

sounds like the ronco kid's toy "bag o glass".

user317182993043 :

Oh, the good old days!!!!!!

Bert :

We also chewed on plastic crap from a tube to make rainbow balloons

scottfulton55 :

Things that never happened for a thousand Alex 😂

Liso202020 :

And Mikey died from eating Pop Rocks.

shanesglyzm :

The only way this stuff would affect you is to eat it

sampson :

those were the days

ronnieallen95 :

What hard to believe but then again what did we know about that stuff then?

LoveBug :

LoveBug :

dangerous kid toy

John420. :

so cool

Flock and Pack :

This explains a lot

cheloe124 :

What happened to the factory workers and their families? Seems like it would’ve been a high turnover rate, how did that work? Because there was a watch factory selling watches with glowing dials from this time period, that the same ban happened. What happened to the workers?

Ride on 62 :

Those were the days!

sting87 :

And?

Eevee's dad :

Hell of a child hood !!!🤣 YEEHAW