Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Street Playing

No matter if you were a kid in a big city or a small suburb, everyone knew the best place for playing was right in the middle of the road. If a car comes by, you better hope you can run away fast enough. This practice was a little too dangerous to keep up these days...

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The More You Know

  • In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
  • Ninety percent of the world’s population lives above the equator.
  • Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be known as Boston, Oregon.
  • 27,000 tress are cut down every day to become toilet paper.
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