Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Watergate Hearings

Every scandal these days is named after the big one...Watergate. The kids in this generation grew up hearing about this trial firsthand. Some people thought this would be the end of democracy in America. They watched Nixon leave the White House in a helicopter!

Star Wars

If you think Star Wars is big now, just imagine how exciting it was when the movie first debuted. These kids got to see Luke Skywalker without knowing anything else about the series. Today, kids are so inundated with content that they know all about the big spoiler!

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The More You Know

  • Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
  • The stars and flashes of light you see when you rub your eyes are called "phosphenes."
  • Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd dusted off their Ghostbusters costumes to visit a terminally ill child who was a fan of the film and wanted to meet them.
  • Only ¼ of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.