Glowing Blue Powder Turned Brazilian City Into Radioactive Wasteland

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Did you know that glowing blue powder once turned an entire Brazilian neighborhood into a radioactive wasteland? In 1987, two scrap dealers in Goiânia broke into an abandoned [music] medical clinic. Inside, they found a strange device. When they cracked it open, brilliant blue [music] powder spilled out. It glowed in the dark like magic. Word spread fast. Locals rubbed it on their [music] skin like glitter.

[00:00:23]Parents painted their children with it for parties. No one knew they [music] were handling cesium-137, one of the deadliest radioactive substances on earth. Within weeks, people started dying.

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