Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood, is the latest hit show out of Netflix, receiving an impressive 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But how much of it is based on a true story?

I n Toxic Town, a drama out now on Netflix, poisonous dust in the air causes children to be born with missing limbs and other physical abnormalities. The alarming story is based on a real incident, when people in the English town of Corby inhaled toxic dust that was later linked to birth defects in a cluster of children.