When I was a child of similar ages - (late forties early fifties) we would eat snow regularly. Then governments started atmospheric nuclear testing and the news said that the snow contained strontium 90 - a radioactive isotope. Children were encouraged to report other kids who ate snow. I used to rush over to my little brother and sisters to knock the snow they were about to eat out of their hands. I would secretly eat the snowflakes off my arm and hope that only eating a few would be safe. I suspect this accounts for the fact that I did poorly in Algebra in the ninth grade.
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When I was a child of similar ages - (late forties early fifties) we would eat snow regularly. Then governments started atmospheric nuclear testing and the news said that the snow contained strontium 90 - a radioactive isotope. Children were encouraged to report other kids who ate snow. I used to rush over to my little brother and sisters to knock the snow they were about to eat out of their hands. I would secretly eat the snowflakes off my arm and hope that only eating a few would be safe. I suspect this accounts for the fact that I did poorly in Algebra in the ninth grade.
i think it's cool and worth the strontium 90 exposure.
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