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For something close to home look here: https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/health-physics-posters/other/poster-issued-by-the-new-york-department-of-health.html https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/health... - radioactive gold jewellery because someone somewhere in upstate New York sometime in the 1930's got their hands on some radon seeds and mixed those in with the rest of the scrap gold. There's documented incidents of radiation burns (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/332689 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/33268...) and cancer (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1451360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1451360/).