• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    Leaded gasoline wasn’t fully phased out in the US until 1996, not sure about other countries. The millennial age bracket starts somewhere around the birth year 1982.

    Fun fact: it’s still used in piston aircraft.

    Edit: sorry, that’s not very fun.

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      NASCAR didn’t switch to unleaded gasoline until 2007, and test scores went up in the areas surrounding their racetracks in the following years.

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        Apparently you can still buy leaded race fuels in the US today, wtf? Ban that shit. I was watching a video yesterday of someone why brought their time-attack racecar to Australia and they had to retune it for unleaded because leaded is banned there. I was blown away they were using leaded fuel in the first place.

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      This made me reconsider the foundations of the high crime rates in the neighborhoods nearest the very busy small plane airport in my home town.