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In the early days of home computers, late 70's to early 80's, computer magazines featured code listings that readers would spend hours typing into their computer in order to play a game or have a certain program.

Operation Mockingbird was a classified CIA program spanning from the 50's through to late 70's intended to influence the media and create 'a propaganda network' of leading American journalists.

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1. In 1964, Gary Flandromwas tasked with studying techniques for exploring the outer planets. He discovered that a rare alignment of the outer planets would occur in the late 70's and came up with the Planetary Grand Tour which allowed for the Voyager program to happen.

2. Karl Marx's lifelong friend Friedrich Engels noted that Marx became so irritated at the late 70's French Marxist interpretations of his materialistic doctrine, he declared at the end of his life, "All I know is that I'm not a Marxist."

3. In the late 80s, hypodermic needles and other medical waste from the Fresh Kills Landfill washed up onto the shores of New York and New Jersey. Known as Syringe Tides, incidents like these closed more than 70 miles of beaches and are cited in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

4. In the late 70's, Andy Warhol produced "piss paintings" using canvases prepared with copper paint and invited people to urinate on them. The uric acid present would then react with the copper to produce colours, which could be adjusted by altering the pisser's diet.

5. Hanna-Barbera cartoons (such as Scooby Doo and The Flinstones) included audience laugh tracks until the late 70's, and only stopped because it became too expensive

6. By the late 1930s Marian Anderson was performing at approximately 70 recitals each year in the U.S. alone, even with racial prejudices still rampant.

7. The Hit Australian TV Show, "Wentworth", Is Based Off "Prisoner: Cell Block H", a Show From the Late 70's - 80's That Had 8 Seasons and 692 Episodes.

8. A crowdsourced study found that on average, guests show up to smaller parties (<23 people) about half an hour late, and turn up at larger parties (>23 people) 70 minutes late. Emily Post's great-great granddaughter did not approve.

9. In 1964 Herman Miller debuted a very well intentioned office design known as the "Action Office," but by the late 70's through its many iterations had become the office cubicle.

10. Famed artist Grandma Moses didn't start painting until her late 70's

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Actress Shelley Duvall (The Shining, Popeye) was in a relationship with Paul Simon in the late 70's. Duvall introduced a friend of hers, Carrie Fisher of Star Wars fame, to Simon. Simon quickly left Duvall for Carrie Fisher.

Before Netflix/Marvel did their Daredevil Series, Director Joe Carnahan pitched a hard R or NC-17 rated Daredevil movie with a collage of late 70's era NYC aesthetic. And it was amazing. - source

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

In the late 70's two families (8 people total) fled East Berlin, Germany in a homemade hot air balloon.

In the late 70's and early 80's, Hostess teamed with DC and Marvel to make semi-hilarious and outlandish comic ads for their snack cakes, featuring some of the comic world's most popular heroes and villains. - source

Eugene Landy, psychiatrist of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, drugged Brian and ran his life like a dictator. By the late 80s, Landy's name appeared as cowriter of Wilson's songs, and Wilson had changed his will to leave 70% of his estate to Landy.

The Parsi form a Zoroastrian community in India with only about 70,000 adherents, one of the most prominent being the late Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen.

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.

One Hit Wonder George McCrae Wasn't Supposed To Be the Lead Singer on the 70's Iconic Hit "Rock Your Baby". The Lead was to Go to His Wife, but She was Running Late and George was Asked to Stand In Her Place.