The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/sithmaster0 on 2024-12-19 16:53:02.

Original Title: TIL in 1945, at 59 years old, Albert Stevens was misdiagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, and as a result was secretly injected with 131 kBq (3.55 μCi) of Plutonium as part of a human experimentation project by Joseph Gilbert Hamilton. It was later discovered the “cancer” was an inflamed ulcer.