80’s Nostalgia

Trivia & Tidbits
Written By The Weekly Bean

  • A billion people tuned in to see Prince Charles and Lady Diana get married.

  • The first commercial U.S. cell phone weighed two pounds.

  • Customs agents seized 20,000 counterfeit Cabbage Patch dolls in 1984.

  • Candy bars only cost 25 cents.

  • Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical” was the decade’s most popular song.

  • Michael Jackson was the decade’s most popular artist.

  • Top Gun won an Academy Award.

  • The personal computer was the “Machine of the Year.”

  • The face-melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark was made possible by dental materials.

  • MTV first hit the air in 1981.

  • Nobody had seen 24-hour news until 1981.

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