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...Ethyl Corporation is a fuel additive company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States. The company is a distributor of fuel additives. Among other products, Ethyl Corporation distributes tetraethyl lead, an additive used to make leaded gasoline.

Founded in 1923, Ethyl Corp was formed by General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso)...

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Half of American IQs lessened by lead in gasoline, study says

The IQ of more than half the United States population has been negatively affected by the presence of lead in gasoline, a new study estimates.

The peer-reviewed study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal discovered childhood exposure to leaded gasoline cost the U.S. a deficit of at least 824 million IQ points, or approximately 2.6 points per American.

Researchers at Florida State University and Duke University focused on U.S. citizens born before 1996, as leaded gasoline was banned that year.

Though it was less known at the time, lead is a harmful neurotoxin...

Remember, this lead product was approved in the 1920s and used until 1996 in the USA. And it was well known by the 1920s that lead is a toxin when ingested.

Lead's toxicity became widely recognized in the late 19th century, although a number of well-educated ancient Greek and Roman writers were aware of this fact and even knew some of the symptoms of lead poisoning. ...

So it was already well-known that lead was a toxin.

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DUMB AND DUMBER, the blockbuster

Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly,[1][2] who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. It is the first installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise. Starring Jim Carrey...

Are you voting red or blue next election? (Good thing that you only need to be able to distinguish between two colors to vote.) Which party put the lead in our gasoline?