1970s 80s facts
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The serving sizes on food labels in the US are not the recommended healthy portion sizes but rather the amount customarily consumed by Americans as determined through sampling taken in the 1970s and 80s.
Roberto Gómez Bolaños, the inspiration for the Simpsons Bumblebee Man, is so popular that reruns of his show ' El Chavo del Ocho' from the 1970s-80s still get an average of 91 million daily viewers around the globe.
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Chicago gangs in the 1970s and 80s made business cards, or "compliment cards," with member nicknames, associated symbols and turf, and the names and symbols of rival gangs. These cards were used to show affiliation, recruit new members, and disrespect rival gangs by inverting their symbols.
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While Central Arizona Project was building canals in the 1970s and 80s to bring water to Phoenix from the Colorado river, OG skateboarders skated the 30ft pipes that cross the rivers.
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"Whore" conventions held around the world in the 1970s and 80s as part of an effort to unionize sex trade workers
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Ervil LeBaron, a member of a sect of Mormon polygamists in Mexico, who invoked the religious doctrine of "blood atonement" to murder 25+ members of his family and fellow Mormons in the 1970s and 80s, both north and south of the border
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In the 1970s-80s the mayor of Portland OR, had an sexual relationship with an underage girl (13) that lasted 15 years, later she turned to drugs and crime and passed away in 2011. He was never charged with a crime, only because the "statue of limitations" had expired.
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Ferris Alexander built a multi-million dollar empire running a chain of porn shops in the 1970s and 80s. He lost his fortune when the Federal government ruled porn was obscene and seized his assets under RICO.
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In the 1970s-80s the mayor of Portland OR, had an sexual relationship with an underage girl (13) that lasted 15 years, later she turned to drugs and crime and passed away in 2013. He was never charged with a crime, because the statue of limitations had expired.
