Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

No Daughter's Dating

Dating culture has been changing rapidly over the years. With dating apps becoming all the rage, it makes sense that girls and guys alike are dating a lot. However, boomers used to have some pretty strict rules. No dating until a certain age was commonplace, especially for the daughters...

Chasing Cars

Poisonous pesticides were not a big issue back in the day, or so people thought. The neighborhood kids would chase after pesticide trucks like a game of tag. These very trucks, against their better knowledge, were really spraying poisons to kill pests and mosquitos, and could harm them!

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The More You Know

  • Sony’s PlayStation 4 costs $381 to manufacture.
  • Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Agatha Christie said she came up with many of her book plots while sitting in her bathtub while eating apples.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.