Undeniable Facts about Baby Boomers

The Throw Pillows

It must have been the style to have millions of throw pillows on your ornate bed, because Boomers love it! They've got pillows everywhere else, too. 

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The More You Know

  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • One area of Canada has a weaker gravitational pull than the rest of Earth.
  • 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".
  • The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
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