Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Charlie's Angels

Beautiful women fighting crime, does it get any cooler than that? Everyone had a favorite Angel, whether you were rooting for Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, or Farah Fawcett. This franchise also got several spin-offs and reboots, very cool!

Rusty Playgrounds

Playgrounds used to be a great way to spend a day at the park...unless they were metal. Rust covered a lot of these local playgrounds until it was no longer usable or safe. Pretty disappointing for neighborhood kids to discover that...

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The More You Know

  • The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
  • 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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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.