Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Meeting Strangers

Stranger Danger was not a thing until the 90's, when people started to realize that maybe not everyone in your neighborhood can be trusted. Kids and adults used to be able to talk to anyone and everyone without fear. That is, until, things went pretty south...

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The More You Know

  • Wasting food is illegal for supermarkets in France.
  • Tears contain a natural painkiller, which reduces pain and improves your mood.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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