Abestos Snow – The Most Dangerous Fake Snow in History
Nowadays, most people would rather die than go anywhere near anything containing asbestos, but there was once a time when people literally sprinkled themselves with fake snow containing the proven carcinogenic. Up to the late 1920s, cotton was the main ingredient used for fake snow on Hollywood film sets and in people’s households, but in […]
Tourists Won’t Stop Visiting Australia’s “Asbestos Town”
It’s considered the most contaminated site in the southern hemisphere and one of the most toxic in the world, but for some reason tourists just can’t stay away from the abandoned mining town of Wittenoom, deep in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region. In its heyday, between 1930 and 1966, Wittenoom was home to around 20,000 […]