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.
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.
Oh it definitely happens. I'm a young millennial and I have a friend my age who deals with mental issues because he ate lead paint leftover in their old house as a child. Lead was so prevalent at one point that getting rid of it all isn't as simple as flipping a switch.
Edit: [wasn't -> isn't] There does not in fact exist a switch that we can now flip to remove lead. Thanks @[email protected].
I was in my early teens in the 90s when leaded gas was finally banned in the US. Furthermore, lead doesn't degrade, only slowly disperse. People born in the early 80s still got a hefty dose of lead. Yay us.