Random 80s Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know

Rainbow Brite Museum

In North Carolina, there is a museum that is solely for remembering how awesome Rainbow Brite was. The museum holds 1500 items from one woman’s collection. That’s some dedication.

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The More You Know

  • People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • China owns all the pandas in the world.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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