Random 80s Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know

Superman and the Walkman

The folks at Sony were inspired by the Pressman audio recorder in the Superman franchise. Originally, it was called the Sound-About in the US and the Stowaway in the UK.

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The More You Know

  • There are 293 ways to make change for $1.
  • Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
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