Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Lead Paint

You won't find lead in your products today. Back in a boomer's childhood, lead paint was potentially lethal. It was found in every home, but no one had any idea how poisonous it was. The legal amount of lead is currently no more than 0.06% concentration, but that's a recent progression...

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The More You Know

  • At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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