r/interesting • u/lb3a3 • 1d ago

HISTORY Atomic Bomb Cereal ring with real Polonium-210

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u/SinoSoul 1d ago edited 1d ago

Real *polonium plutonium in toy bomb, real coke in Coca Cola. Kids back then lived their best lives.

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago

4th of July they give you a baggy with 10 m80s and say don't blow your fingers off. 8 yrs old.

One of those of m80 was probably like 1/8 of a stick of dynamite. Big explosion

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u/G-EDM 1d ago edited 1d ago

Funny. When I was a very young child (30 years in the past or something) we had a neighbor who collected militia and a lot of other stuff. he was heavily into Surprise Egg figures. I had some and we traded. I received a military helmet and a chain from a machine gun with one round in it. It was a big box of figures so there was some value coming into the trade from my side too. Only warning was that I should never ever hit it with a hammer. Boy was my mum angry after finding out. There was a third item but I don't remember what it was. Maybe a belt or something else. Times where different back then, high trust society. Edit: it is possible that the round was not live anymore and the warning was just to increase the trading value of the collectible item. But I was too young to know for sure.

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago

Lol...

One day my friends and I had a 22lr bullet and we were daring each other to hit that sucker with a hammer. None of us had the balls thank God! 😆