Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Free Trampolines

Trampolines these days are still pretty unsafe, but they're usually at least concealed by a net so a kid won't go bouncing off the side of it. When boomers were little, trampolines did not come with a net. You had to just jump in the center and hope for the best!

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The More You Know

  • A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
  • Mysterious sand dune holes baffled Indiana for years.
  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • A baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep in their first year.
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