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Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas by belltaco on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:11AM (#38039511)
If you want a fascinating story telling video with a lot of sciency stuff for the relative layman, here's an excellent one by Veritasium on how it happened.

"The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA

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Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas by tamcap on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:02PM (#38042531)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. He was a fascinating man, relatively non-famous. Probably singlehandedly contributed to more environmental damage than you can imagine. Died in a strange way too.
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Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas by lazide on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:29PM (#38045710)
Frankly, he should be the most infamous human that ever lived. He likely killed/injured at least as many as Ghenghis Khan.
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