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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Almost entirely from leaded gasoline. Not paint.

The paint was only banned because kids were eating some, sometimes and that was obviously bad.

Lead paint was really awesome, though. There still isn't any paint sold today that holds up as long as lead paint did. It also coated better and dried faster. The stuff was the best, so long as there weren't any kids around to put pieces of it in their mouths.