Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Chasing Cars

Poisonous pesticides were not a big issue back in the day, or so people thought. The neighborhood kids would chase after pesticide trucks like a game of tag. These very trucks, against their better knowledge, were really spraying poisons to kill pests and mosquitos, and could harm them!

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • The moon has its own time zones.
  • About 7% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
  • Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
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