Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Notes For the Store

Don't trust your kid to get the right medicine? Good call. It used to be common practice to send a little one into town with nothing but a couple of bucks and a note in their pocket to give to the shopkeeper. Once there, they'd give them the cash and paper, like little delivery people!

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The More You Know

  • Peanuts grow underground.
  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • A former NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker.
  • Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
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