Mid 80s facts

While investigating facts about Mid 80s, I found out little known, but curios details like:

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.

'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0, a word processor application that was released in the mid-80s and runs on DOS to write all his novels.

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 22 of the best facts about Mid 80s I managed to collect.

1. In 1959, the guy who wrote "Louie, Louie" sold the song's rights for $750 to pay for his wedding. In the mid-80s, he was living on welfare with his mom in South Central LA, when a lawyer convinced him to take action to get the rights back. He settled out of court and became a millionaire.

2. The Commodore 64 computer dominated the US computer market during the mid-80s, outselling IBM PC compatibles and Apple computers.

3. 80s hair band Winger can trace their massive mid-90s downfall in popularity to being mocked relentlessly on "Beavis and Butt-Head" and subsequent Mike Judge projects

4. In Hungary, there's a term—"Kacsamesék generáció"—that translates to "the DuckTales generation," referring to kids who were born in the early-to-mid '80s.

5. During a feud between two Yakuza families in the mid-80s, local newspapers printed daily "scorecards" tallying the body counts on both sides.

6. Andy Warhol created digital art on a Commodore Amiga in the mid 80s and then saved it on floppy disks. The art was only discovered 20 years later thanks to the chance viewing of a YouTube clip.

7. In the mid 80s, there was an illicit underground making homemade computers in Romania using parts sold door to door in dorm rooms and pubs including bags of resistors, transistors and LEDs in bulk. It was based off the CoBra running BASIC and CP/M, created for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers.

8. Axe Body Spray was initially released as "Axis" in the mid-80s and was nearly discontinued before re-branding

9. While Depeche Mode appealed to an alternative audience in the U.S. in the mid-80s, in Europe they were considered teen idols

10. QNX (known mostly as the operating system behind Blackberry phones) was first used in the Ontario Ministry of Education's Unisys ICON computers (AKA the Bionic Beaver) back in the mid to late 80s.

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The little pink M.U.S.C.L.E figures from the mid-late 80s were actually adapted from a Japanese manga called Kinnikuman (Muscle Man) that is still published to this day.

The fastest a human has ever traveled was Apollo 10's crew going 24,791 mph in 1969 - and all 3 members are still alive today in their mid 80s - source

Pierce Brosnan was up for the role of James Bond as early as the mid-80s - source

The "pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon" but from Wayne's World was a parody of a commercial from the mid 80s.

In college in the mid-80s, David Schwimmer was in an improv group with Stephen Colbert - source

Some models of the Toyota Cressida in the mid-80s could play "Happy Birthday" to drivers on their birthdays.

In the mid-80s two young Irish boys, aged 10 and 13, sneaked onto a ferry to the UK from Dublin, then onto a train to the airport, then onto a plane to New York.

Kellogg had a 6-hour work shift up until the mid-80s

George R R Marting still uses Wordstar 4.0 - a DOS based word processor released in the mid-80s - to write all of his novels.

Brooke Shields lost her virginity to Dean Cain (aka, Superman) @ Princeton University dorm in the mid '80s, and she was so traumatized she started crying "deeply and silently" and ran out of the room, down the dorm hall naked.