Unbelievable Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Chicken Pox Party

Before there was a vaccine for chickenpox, parents would throw pox parties with infected and noninfected children. Once everyone had it and overcame it, they would be safe from the virus forever. Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that it could return as Shingles later in life... Thankfully, once there was a less painful way to do it, people generally took that route. 

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The More You Know

  • The youngest parents in the world were aged 8 and 9.
  • The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
  • The people who are currently alive are only 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.
  • The first time Reddit was mentioned in the New York Times, it was described as "foolish collectivism" that "grinds away the Web's edges and saps it of its humanity".
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