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User recalls negligible asbestos risk from childhood curiosity

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A Mastodon user shared a personal anecdote about childhood curiosity, recalling how they would scratch and sniff an old ironing board that later turned out to contain nearly 100% asbestos. The user also mentioned playfully sticking knitting needles into electrical outlets. Decades later, research confirmed that the risk of asbestosis from these childhood activities was negligible. AI

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User recalls negligible asbestos risk from childhood curiosity

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    As a young child, sometimes I casually scratched and sniffed the fascinatingly flaky heat sink of an old ironing board. Probably a board from the late 1950s or

    As a young child, sometimes I casually scratched and sniffed the fascinatingly flaky heat sink of an old ironing board. Probably a board from the late 1950s or early 1960s. An "asbestos content approaching 100%", according to < https:// pdf.library.soton.ac.uk/BOPCRI S/19585/pdf/…

    LINKS pdf.library.soton.ac.uk/…/19585.pdf chatgpt.com/…/6a958070-f350-83eb-b5da-f5d… chatgpt.com/…/6a958070-f35

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