Late 80s facts
While investigating facts about Late 80s, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The "Stranger Things" font is the same one used on the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook from the late '80s.
In the late 80s NASA studied house plants as a means of providing cleaner and purer air for their space stations. They found Peace Lilies and Chrysanthemums to be the best all rounders at air filtering.
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 Late 80s I managed to collect.
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Weird Al turned down $5 million, in the late 80s, to endorse a beer company. He thought it was ethically wrong because, "a lot of his fans were young and impressionable."
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When Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.
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When Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.
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George Wallace, the governor who tried to stop two black students from attending the University of Alabama, became a born-again Christian in the late 70s, rebuked his support for segregation, and when reelected in the 80s, made a record number of black appointees to state positions.
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Nuclear landmines were a thing, even until the late '80s.
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In the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; "I can't totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer."
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In the late 80s, Paramount Pictures planned to make a Doctor Who movie. Their top choices to play the Time Lord? Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby.
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A sub-generation exists called the "Oregon Trail Generation", and consists of people born in the late '70s and early '80s.
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The 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) sang lead and played guitar in the 80s punk rock band Dreamboys. Their drummer was Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson.
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Abacus use was standard in the USSR pretty much until the late 80s
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Costa Rica surpassed the US in life expectancy in the late 80s.
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." - source
Stephen King suffered from alcoholism and drug abuse in the 70s and 80s and has remained sober since the late 80s.
The overlap between Generation X and Millennials are called the Oregon Trail Generation (late 70s to early 80s). They have traits of both generations, but do not fall fully into either category. Named for the popular computer game and also known as The Lucky Ones and Xennials.
Actor Bruce Willis release three record albums in the late 80s and 90s including Bruno is Back and The Best of Bruce Willis. His cover of Under the Boardwalk hit the number two spot in the UK. - source
GM built and tested a Coal Powered Car in response to the oil crisis in the late 70s early 80s
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.
In the late 80s the FBI launched an investigation codenamed "Operation Rocky Top" into corruption of the Tennessee state gov't, resulting in the suicide of the TN Secretary of State and the incarceration of several officials; the FBI was investigating illegally sold bingo licenses.
In the late 80s they tried mining Mt Croagh Patrick for gold, but were denied by the Mayo County Council saying the gold “is fine right where it is”
The Doomsday Clock, a representation of how close we are to global catastrophe with midnight representing the end, has been at 3 minutes to midnight since 2015, the first time since the late 80s that it was that close to midnight.
The sound of a coca-cola bottle being opened and poured in late 70s / early 80s commercials was from a synthesizer, created by Suzanne Ciani.
