Unbelievable Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Notes For the Store

Don't trust your kid to get the right medicine? Good call. It used to be common practice to send a little one into town with nothing but a couple of bucks and a note in their pocket to give to the shopkeeper. Once there, they'd give them the cash and paper, like little delivery people!

Sunscreen Scam

If you're going out on a sunny day, be sure to wear your sunscreen. Boomers used to think that sunscreen was a huge scam and never used the stuff. It wasn't until recently that people learned how dangerous sunburns could really be in the long term. Thankfully, people believe in the stuff now!

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The More You Know

  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The loudest animal on earth is the sperm whale.
  • 9% of Americans have phobias.
  • J is the only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.