Random 80s Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

Most people don’t know this, but Cindy Lauper is actually the person who sings the theme song!

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The More You Know

  • There was a flying dinosaur the size of a giraffe.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • The world's most densely populated island is the size of two soccer fields.
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