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

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  • The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.