Shoe shops used X-ray machines to measure shoe sizes. Way before radiation was fully understood, shoe shops measured sizes through X-rays in the 1940s.
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Shoe shops used X-ray machines to measure shoe sizes in the 1940s before the risks of X-rays were fully understood.