TIL just months after the Hiroshima bombing, Kix cereal offered an atomic-bomb-shaped ring in exchange for a box-top and 15 cents. Each contained a glowing sample of polonium.

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/spinthariscopes/ring.htm



Submitted March 15, 2015 at 05:13AM by OlyGhost http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2z2jwk/til_just_months_after_the_hiroshima_bombing_kix/