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Folks reported strange things in a New York town in 1945, right after the government announced an experiment adding tiny amounts of fluoride to the municipal drinking water.
“Dozens of Newburgh residents called the water department to complain that the water was discolouring their saucepans, hurting the flavour of carbonated beverages and causing digestive upsets,” the Washington Evening Star reported on February 22, 1951.
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