Wild Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Community Parents

Everyone has a set of parents or a guardian of some kind, but it used to be the norm that an entire community would be looking after the kids of the area. That meant any and every adult was the authority over every and any kid they came across. For obvious reasons, this isn't the way things are done now...

The More You Know

Mysterious sand dune holes baffled Indiana for years.
After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.
You spend about 10% of the time you're awake blinking.
The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.