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Because it was different back then with radium, some of them actually paint their lips to have them glow. Kind of a novel thing to do, but they didn't realize exactly what they were doing for themselves. And there were three factories in the US, mainly involved with that. There was one in Orange, New York in 1917, there was another in Ottawa, Illinois in 1920, and Waterbury, Connecticut in the 1920s. And as I said, they were instructed to point their lips to stop it.