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And there were a number of them passed away from radiation associated cancers. You can only imagine oral cancer would be number one, esophageal cancer would be number two, gastric cancer, et cetera, going on. And from that, I guess if you want to say something good come from that, that was, what happened then was inspiration for the revamping of workplace safety laws. And that was one of the very first things that was enacted about the radium. Now Canada, I don't want to sound like I'm picking on the U.S. But Canada had its share of them as well. I'll just drop it. And there were a number of plants all through Canada. I think between the U.S. and Canada, there was something like 4,000 or so of these employees that were working in radium, picking dials, et cetera. And not only radium girls, we also had what was referred to as the Canadian bomb girls. Just stop it.