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- 01Midgley himself contracted lead poisoning in 1923 while demonstrating tetraethyl lead's safety to reporters.
- 02Blood lead levels in children fell 78% within a decade of the US leaded-gas phaseout in 1986.
- 03Midgley died in 1944 strangled by a pulley-and-rope device he invented to lift himself out of bed.