Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Road Trips

You can obviously still go on a road trip whenever you want, but kids in the 70s had a real road trip experience. There were no phones or iPads to distract you, just your own imagination and maybe an annoying sibling or two. That's the real fun!

Saturday Cartoons

Before Netflix and Disney+, there was just a TV with 3 accessible channels. One of these provided cartoons on Saturday and Sunday mornings for the little kids in the household. They'd watch some Looney Toons, maybe some Mickey Mouse, and more!

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The More You Know

  • Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
  • 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.
  • Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
  • Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.