70s 80s facts

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That. in the US, the "we'll be back after these messages" often seen during kid shows of the '70s, '80s, and '90s were mandated by the FCC to help children differentiate between the TV show and commercials.

That. in the US, the "we'll be back after these messages" often seen during kid shows of the '70s, '80s, and '90s were mandated by the FCC to help children differentiate between the TV show and commercials.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 42 of the best facts about 70s 80s I managed to collect.

1. Sour Patch Kids used to be named Mars Men in the 70s and were renamed in the mid 80s to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.

2. When U.S. space shuttles started linking up with Russia's Mir in 1995, both sides owed a small debt to the KGB. it was the KGB that successfully stole the U.S. designs in the '70s and '80s, unintentionally laying the groundwork for the compatibility between the U.S. and Russian systems.

3. Up until the 70s and 80s every competitor in the Olympics had to be an amateur, meaning they could not receive payment. Today, the only Olympic sports with no professional athletes are boxing and wrestling

4. George Wallace, the governor who tried to stop two black students from attending the University of Alabama, became a born-again Christian in the late 70s, rebuked his support for segregation, and when reelected in the 80s, made a record number of black appointees to state positions.

5. During the 70s-80s the crime was so high in New York City that they had volunteer crime-prevention patrollers like Guardian Angels

6. A sub-generation exists called the "Oregon Trail Generation", and consists of people born in the late '70s and early '80s.

7. Jordache, the company famous for skinny jeans in the 70s and 80s, now makes most of its money in real estate, hotel and restaurant chains and airlines

8. Chonosuke Okamura, a Japanese Paleontologist from the 70s and 80s, gained infamy as a pseudoscientist in his field for misidentifying tiny rocks to be miniature sized animal fossils. He won an Ig Nobel prize after claiming humans once used to be ~3.5mm in height, on average

9. The divorce rate of marriages are no longer at 50%. Divorces surged in the 70s and 80s skewing the stat. Current divorce rates are around 15%.

10. The man who invented the Jheri curl, a popular hairstyle for African-Americans in the 80s, was a white man in his 70s.

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A patient who underwent deep brain stimulation in the nucleus accumbens, a pleasure centre of the brain, started suddenly and distinctly to enjoy 70s and 80s Johnny Cash music, and would stop enjoying it when the stimulator ran out of battery.

Stephen King suffered from alcoholism and drug abuse in the 70s and 80s and has remained sober since the late 80s.

The overlap between Generation X and Millennials are called the Oregon Trail Generation (late 70s to early 80s). They have traits of both generations, but do not fall fully into either category. Named for the popular computer game and also known as The Lucky Ones and Xennials. - source

The most watched TV shows of the past decades in the US were the final episodes of The Fugitive (60s), Roots (70s), *M*A*S*H* (80s), Cheers (90s) and Friends (00s). The most watched show of the current decade is an episode of Undercover Boss.

The top artists by decade have been The Beatles in the 60s, the Bee Gees in the 70s, Michael Jackson in the 80s, Mariah Carey in the 90s, Usher in the 2000s, and, so far, Rihanna in the 2010s. - source

In the 70s and 80s, most Finnish politicians had a personal Soviet spy assigned to them with whom they would meet secretly on a semi-regular basis. The spies were known as Home Russians.

Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was a main character on That '80s Show, the short lived attempt at recreating the success of That '70s Show.

There was a failed attempt to create a That 80s Show to capitalize on the success of That 70s Show

GM built and tested a Coal Powered Car in response to the oil crisis in the late 70s early 80s

The USAF almost revived the P-51 Mustang as a light support aircraft in the 70s and 80s.

A Brass Monkey is actually a premixed cocktail of vodka, rum and orange juice that came in a can in the 70s and 80s.