Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Chicken Pox Party

Before there was a vaccine for chickenpox, parents would throw pox parties with infected and noninfected children. Once everyone had it and overcame it, they would be safe from the virus forever. Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that it could return as Shingles later in life... Thankfully, once there was a less painful way to do it, people generally took that route. 

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The More You Know

  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.
  • When the Super Bowl champion Giants visited the White House in 1987, they dumped popcorn on President Reagan.
  • The world's most densely populated island is the size of two soccer fields.
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