Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Engineering Explained" channel.

  1. Correction: We originally didn't know lead was bad in this way. They thought the amount of lead in the air would not remotely enough to produce symptoms even in crowded cities because they didn't know what the effects of routine microdosing were. Source: A random chemistry book published in ~1930.
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  2. You excise many key bits to make things sound worse. First, why do Cessna's need leaded gasoline? Second, what were the original reasons given for allowing leaded gasoline. Third, how much is too much.
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  3. No one actually believed this. They just repeated it anyway
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  4. The test Tesla did only proves something that we already knew: Electric motors don't need to rev up or warm up to get max speed/torque.
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  5. Thank you for saving my clutch from my own laziness.
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