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What unusual inventions are discussed in this episode?
Not win-ventions? There's just one. It's fine. All right, I've got one actually that's real, and you're going to love the name. You're going to love the name. You'll understand why this sold.
What?
What is Radithor? Okay, Radithor is a patented medicine from 1932. No, 1918 is when it was introduced. Radithor by William J.A. Bailey. His biggest commercial success. Sold 400,000 bottles between 1925 and 1930. It's a lot of Radithor. Oh, it's so much Radithor. People were buying it left and right. It was curing all kinds of ales for everybody. William J.A. Bailey, a dropout from Harvard College.
Not a doctor, just so we all know. advertised it as, quote, a cure for the living dead. Wow. It cures zombieism? Oh, yeah. As well as perpetual sunshine in a bottle. It cures sunshine or it gives you sunshine? It's perpetual sunshine.
Infinite light and cures the zombie apocalypse.
What a thing. It was expensive, but it also cured impotence.
Ooh.
Anyway, so it was all ruined by someone named Eben Byers who, you know, actually graduated from college, Yale. Boring. They drank 1,400 bottles of Radithor beginning in 1927 and stayed alive and healthy until the ripe old age of 1932. They were that old? Well, yeah. Well, I mean, he died in 1932.
Wait, wait, yeah.
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