South Africa, Jan. 19 -- Radioactive children's science kits, X-ray shoe-fitting machines, asbestos used as fake snow and a waterslide that left test dummies mangled. These are just some of the utterly bizarre and seriously dangerous real-life inventions that the History Channel's fascinating new series Hazardous History with Henry Winkler will dive into.

The nostalgia-drenched series, starting on DStv 186 on Thursday, 22 January, at 7.25pm, reminds you of the things you did in the past - for fun, for money, or out of plain boredom - that you just can't do anymore. It will have you nodding along and then shaking your head in disbelief that these reckless past times, products or practices were once part of everyday life.

There was time w...