Early 90s facts
While investigating facts about Early 90s, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In the early 90s Ozzy Osbourne announced his retirement tour. It was called "No More Tours", a pun on his No More Tears album, however in 1995 he returned to touring, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement Sucks Tour".
Doping Cyclists in the early 90s at the Tour De France used so much EPOs that they had to exercise throughout the night to Prevent Heart Attacks in their sleep
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 90s I managed to collect.
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South Africa developed 6 nuclear bombs but dismantled all of them in the early 90s
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In the early 90s, shortly after Crystal Pepsi was released, Coca-Cola developed a clear version of their Tab cola. However, they intentionally developed it to fail so as to taint the reputation of and take down Crystal Pepsi in an act of kamikaze.
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A "band-aid" for "people of color" was marketed in the late 90s and early 00s, but failed to gain traction, partly due to retailers insistence on only featuring the item in the "ethnic sections" rather than in-line with its "white" counterparts.
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Austin Powers was created in the early ‘90s when Mike Meyers’ band, Ming Tea, adopted ‘60s personas. Meyers’ wife encouraged him to write a film based on the character. Ming Tea also performs the end credits theme.
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In the early '90s numerous U.S. companies, such as Alcoa and Cenex, sold farmers toxic byproducts marketed as 'recycled fertilizer' to avoid paying to have the waste sent to landfills. It polluted fields with hazardous heavy metals and it was all done legally
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There was a soft and chewy version of Nerds called Dweebs. Introduced in the early 90s, the box contained three flavors but was discontinued after a short time.
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Carrie Fisher was a prolific script doctor in the 90s and early 2000s rewriting scripts such as Hook, The Wedding Singer, and the Star Wars Prequels.
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In the early 90s, a Chilean stockbroker, Juan Pablo Davila, accidentally lost $30 million, selling stock instead of buying. He tried to recoup the losses, but ended up losing $176 million more. He lost his job, got 3 years of jail for defraudation, and inspired the verb "davilar" (to screw up).
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Although SNL never revealed the gender of the androgynous Pat of the "It's Pat" skits (and movie of the same name) from the early 90s, SNL alum Norm MacDonald claimed in an interview in 2016 that the "secret" among the cast and crew was that Pat, in fact, was female
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Déjà Vu Services, Inc. operates about 132 strip clubs in 41 U.S. states, as well as multiple clubs in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Canada, and Mexico. It was founded and is controlled by Harry Mohney, the largest distributor of pornography from the late '60s to the early '90s
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Ramesses II (aka Ramesses The Great) managed to live to his early 90s.
During the late 80s and early 90s the concept of superpredators supported laws that put thousands of underaged offenders in life in prison. They're being released as research and experience shows that recidivism is rare and they can be rehabilitated. - source
Brad Pitt battled depression in the early 90s, which he says was fueled by smoking too much weed. He was shocked into action during a visit to Casablanca, Morocco, where he witnessed extreme poverty and vowed to turn his life around. - source
Male pufferfish use their bodies to create circle patterns in the sand, over 10 days, to attract female to lay their eggs in the "nest". Discovered in the early 90s, scientists only found the answer in 2013 on who was creating these underwater art works
The generation after Millenials is called Generation Z. The start of the generation is still debated on but somewhere between late 90s and early 2000s is the cutoff date. - source
High-level US politicians and VIPs were accused of crimes including child abuse, devil worship, cannibalism, drug trafficking in the late 1980s and early 90s in what became known as the Franklin child prostitution ring
During Japan's property bubble of the early '90s, the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was "worth" more than all the real estate in California
The collapse of the Cuban economy in the early 90s led to a 50% reduction in death by diabetes, and a 33% reduction in death by coronary heart disease.
There is an unreleased fantastic four movie from the early 90s
11/11, a Chinese holiday also known as "Single's Day" and invented in the early 90s as a sort of opposition to Valentine's Day, has become the "largest online shopping day in the world" due, in part, to marketing efforts by online retailer Ali Baba
In the 1980s, New Zealand had its own version of Reaganomics called Rogernomics which offered nearly identical policies. It is considered responsible for a financial crisis in NZ in the early 90s.
