Random 80s Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know

Eddie Murphy, Rick James, and Stevie Wonder

Eddie Murphy dropped half a million dollars to make his album “How Could It Be.” Stevie Wonder and Rick James famously produced it… It was just a bizarre flop.

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The More You Know

  • More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
  • 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.
  • There's an asteroid that's worth $95.8 trillion.
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