Early 1990s facts
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Raw salmon isn't a classic sushi topping. It gradually became popular only after Norway started selling farmed parasite-free Atlantic salmon to Japan in the early 1990s.
The audio levels in recorded music have increased since the early 1990s with many experts saying it leads to reduced sound quality and listener enjoyment. This is known as the "Loudness War".
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 50 of the best facts about Early 1990s I managed to collect.
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In the early 1990s, DJs Opie and Anthony promoted a giveaway of "100 Grand" over several weeks on their radio show in Boston. When the winner was finally chosen, they revealed that the prize was a 100 Grand candy bar and not $100,000.
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In the early 1990s Willie Nelson had nearly all of his property confiscated and sold by the IRS, for payment of back taxes and fines. His famous guitar, named Trigger, was only saved from sale because his daughter smuggled it out of his Texas home and took it to Hawaii.
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When a 16th century cathedral in Salamanca, Spain was renovated in the early 1990s, ornate stone carvings of an astronaut and a gargoyle eating ice cream were added near the entrance.
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Pablo Escobar was regarded as the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated net-worth of US$30 billion by the early 1990s
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Blue LEDs were not invented until the early 1990s, 30 years after red and green LEDs were invented.
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A survey in the early 1990s revealed that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse.
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Alan Conway was a scam artist who successfully impersonated Stanley Kubrick in the early 1990s. Rather than being annoyed, Kubrick was instead fascinated by the scam. Years later, Kubrick's personal assistant tracked down Conway and made a film based on his exploits.
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During the 1990s and early 2000s, it was technically infeasible to violate net-neutrality. First in 2003 with "deep packet inspection" was it possible
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Nintendo was so popular in the 1980s and early 1990s that it almost destroyed the computer-game industry. Even the children of computer-game developers demanded the console despite their parents' refusals and access to state-of-the-art computers at home.
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s, equivalent to about $55 billion in 2016.
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Hiroshi Yamauchi, the third president of Nintendo, bought the Seattle Mariners baseball team in the early 1990s despite never having seen a game of baseball. He never attended a single game before his death in 2013.
Russia successfully put a giant mirror in space to reflect sunlight in order to light up Siberia in the dark winter months. A successful test in the early 1990s created a beam of light the brightness of a full moon and 7km in diameter, but the project was ultimately cancelled. - source
That, prior to his downfall in the early 1990s, the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had gotten so wealthy from the sale of cocaine that Forbes magazine estimated that he was the 7th richest man in the world. - source
Since the early 1990s the population in the city of Madrid has grown by more than two million residents.
In the early 1990s she was one of the discoverers of the importance of mast cells.
Where’s Waldo was banned in libraries in the 1990s because early editions contained “nudity”
In the early 1990s, Warner Bros. originally conceived a live-action Beavis & Butthead film with David Spade and Adam Sandler playing the title characters. After Viacom (owner of MTV) bought Paramount Pictures, the studio replaced Warner's interest in the film and dropped the live-action concept.
The song "Good Vibrations" was Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's top hit. It hit number one on the Billboard charts in the early 1990s.
During the early 1990s, serial killer Joseph Metheny owned a burger stand located in Baltimore, Maryland. After his arrest in 1996, he claimed he had fed his customers the flesh of at least 3 human beings.
A musician that uses a turntable to create music is called a turntablist. This term was coined by DJ Dick in the early 1990s.