Late 60 facts

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Newborn babies can support their own weight for up to two minutes when hanging from a bar. This was discovered by a man named Dr Robinson in the late 1800's, when he made 60 babies dangle from a walking-stick.

The traditional black and white soccer ball was made by Adidas in the late 60's so that the ball could be viewed more easily on black and white television.

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 23 of the best facts about Late 60 I managed to collect.

1. Frito Lay angered the Mexican community in the late 60's through the use of the Frito Bandito, a Mexican that stole Fritos

2. Old people" are getting older. If your chance of dying within the next year is <1%, you are considered "middle aged." The threshold for men transitioning to middle age has increased 44 in the 1920s to 60 today. For women, that number jumped from the "late 40s" to 65.

3. In the late 60's, Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones purchased an old house that belonged to A.A. Milne (author of the Winnie the Pooh books). The 100 acre wood was based on the estate. Brian Jones died in it's pool in 1969.

4. Late 19th-century America killed up to 60 million Bison in order to jeopardise the economies of American Indian nations.

5. Moses Fleetwood Walker, a black baseball player, played in the Major Leagues in 1884, over 60 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color-line in 1947. Because he was "open about his black heritage, and often faced racial bigotry so prevalent in the late 19th century United States."

6. Vince Taylor who was one of the main inspirations behind David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust. Taylor had mild success as a wild rocker in the late 50's and early 60's until having an extreme reaction to a week long binge of LSD. From that point on he claimed to be "Mateus" the new messiah.

7. In the late 60's McDonald's hired design consultant and psychologist Louis Cheskin to help redesign their famous logo. Instead he argued the arches should stay because they symbolized a pair of nourishing breasts and induced hunger

8. In the late 60's David Bowie was in an Ice Cream commercial directed By Ridley Scott

9. The second largest Giant Sequoia Grove in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains contained 6000 Sequoias but was logged down to only 60-100 Sequoias in the late 1800s. The loggers did not make any profit due to the high cost of logging.

10. HIV was most probably present in the US as early as the late 60's.

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Late comedian Patrice O'Neal served 60 days in prison for having sex with an underage 15 year old when he was 16, because Massachusetts lacks a close-in-age exception.

Penguins evolved 60-65 Ma ago in the late Cretaceous period. Meaning they could appear in a Jurassic Park film and chronologically fit in with many of the dinosaurs in the park. - source

Academy Award winning actor Richard Harris also sang the popular song from the late 60's titled "MacArthur Park". It reached number 2 on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. - source

Creed Bratton was an early guitarist of the famous psychedelic group The Grassroots in the late 60's

Leonard Nimoy broke into the music scene in the late 60's. One of his most popular songs was about Bilbo Baggins. - source

Teddy Roosevelt helped make the forward pass legal in American Football. In a meeting of more than 60 schools in late 1905. This meeting was the first step toward the establishment of what would become the NCAA and was followed by several sessions to work out "the new rules."

There was a cartoon like the Flintstones, but with dogs in modern (Well late 60's early 70's)

It took UK around 60 years to double its economy when the Industrial Revolution began. It took USA around 50 years to double its economy during the economic take-off in the late nineteenth century. Several East & S-E Asian countries today have been doubling their economies every 10 years.

About an un-aired documentary funded by the Discovery channel of a potential cover up of an elite pedophile ring in the US in the late 80's - runtime 60 mins

Heat(1995) is based on a real life cop/criminal interaction from 60's Chicago. It was also a remake of a late 80's TV movie

The 1950's U.S. TV show "Winky Dink and You", which Bill Gates called "the first interactive TV show" (and I watched in syndication as a child in the late 60's and early 70's) was cancelled because of legitimate concerns about x-rays from TV picture tubes at the time.