Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

We don't often think about the impacts our jobs have on the wider world around us.

A truck driver delivering meat to a grocery store isn't aware that she might be contributing

to the inhumane factory farming industry.

The oil rig worker doesn't understand his role in climate change, either.

It's not their fault.

They aren't a blame for these things.

It's just the nature of the world in which we live.

Every choice we make comes with consequences, no matter how big or small.

The cauldron girls of Oak Ridge Tennessee couldn't begin to fathom what their work would

eventually lead to.

All they wanted to do was help the war effort.

What America entered World War II, many men of fighting age were sent overseas.

They left their homes and families behind to take on an immensely evil power, and that

meant their partners were left to take care of themselves and make ends meet.

And so in 1944, thousands of young women in need of work flocked to the city of Oak Ridge

Tennessee.

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