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You wake up stuck in a movie from the 1980’s. What’s the worst movie to be stuck in?

by QuestionGuy May 23, 2022, 3:28 pm

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For those who’ve lived it, what were the 1980’s like?

by QuestionGuy May 22, 2022, 6:32 pm

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TIL the term LOL (‘laughing out loud’) is widely believed to have been coined in a chat room in the 1980s by Wayne Pearson of Calgary, Alberta (Canada).

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 6:33 pm

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TIL John Halkin is the pseudonym of an unknown British author who wrote several horror novels in the 1980s for Hamlyn, most notably the “slimy” trilogy Slime, Slither, and Squelch.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 5:37 pm

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TIL that Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, which sells for thousands per bottle, was so undesirable for decades that the brand was sold everywhere from “gimmicky decanters shaped like college mascots” in the 1980s to entire privately sold barrels for only $1200 as late as the early 2000s.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 5:49 pm

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TIL The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans.

by whatilearned April 4, 2022, 4:47 pm

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TIL that after a turbulent flight in the early 1980’s, Aretha Franklin developed aviophobia and traveled by bus to get to concerts and other events from that point on.

by whatilearned March 21, 2022, 3:49 pm

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TIL that the Japanese call the phenomenon of people working themselves to death ‘Karōshi’. The term became popular during the real estate boom in the 1980s, when several business executives died of overwork while in their prime years. Committing suicide due to overwork is called karōjisatsu.

by whatilearned March 16, 2022, 4:47 pm

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TIL Ronald Reagan instituted the deregulation of advertising to children in the 1980s. This allowed companies to market as much as they wanted to kids, leading to an explosion of new toys, cartoons, junk food, and breakfast cereals.

by whatilearned March 14, 2022, 8:37 pm

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TIL: In early 1980s, rather than opting for an all out strike, chemists’ assistants in UK handed out prescription pharmaceuticals for free

by whatilearned March 5, 2022, 4:40 am

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TIL in the 1980s, the last 29 Guam kingfishers were captured in an effort to save the species from total extinction caused by non-native brown tree snakes. Through the dedicated effort of zoos, there are now 140 around the world with the aim of reintroducing them back to the wild one day.

by whatilearned February 25, 2022, 4:35 am

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TIL that while the song Hurt So Good by John Mellencamp never reached number one in the US, it spent more weeks in the top 10 than any other charting single during the 1980s.

by whatilearned February 19, 2022, 5:53 pm

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