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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/afeeney on 2025-08-11 17:12:50+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Yale graduate, champion golfer, and industrialist Eben Byers died of cancer after drinking 1,400 bottles of Radiathor, radioactive water sold as medicine. He had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin because of the high levels of radiation in his body (https://spark.iop.org/byers-lead-coffin)