Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Pop Rocks

This candy came with science and horror stories. Some people would combine it with soda to be true masochists, others would just add it to ice cream or eat it alone. No matter how you ate it, it was always an experience.

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The More You Know

  • When Boris Yeltsin met President Clinton in 1995, his first question was "Do you think O.J. did it?"
  • A man sued Pepsi claiming he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
  • Nearly 15 percent of Los Angeles is used as a parking lot.
  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
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