Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Science Sets

Science is the way of the future, but it was also the way of the past. Back in the good old days, these kits were sold in stores just like everything else. The issue was that these things were often able to create explosions and hazardous chemicals. But sure, let your little boy play with them!

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The More You Know

  • There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
  • Movie popcorn costs more per ounce than Filet Mignon.
  • 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".
  • There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
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