Unbelievable Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Merry Go Rounds

You won't find too many of these on the playground these days. Folks used to put their kids on these merry-go-rounds, and then promptly whip the kid across the yard by spinning it so fast. While it might have been fun, it was also too dangerous to survive the test of time. 

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The More You Know

  • Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
  • There is a museum of bad art.
  • 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.
  • 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".
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