Fun Facts About The 80's

By Editorial Staff in History On 10th February 2016

"Avoid The Noid!" Fun and Cool Facts About The 1980's.

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#1 The crimping iron was invented after a hair stylist who spent hours braiding and unbraiding Barbra Streisand's hair for a photo shoot. The first was made by Windmere.

#2 In 1987, Prozac capsules where invented and released in the USA market and were the first anti-depression pills.

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#3 The earliest cell phones had huge battery packs and could weigh over 20 pounds.

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#4 The 1982 song, Mickey may now be a high school cheerleader anthem but Toni Basil was thirty-eight years old when she recorded it.

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#5 The US American spaceship ‘Challenger’ explodes shortly after its start in January 1986. Every member of the crew died, including 6 astronauts and a private person, the teacher Christa McAuliffe.

#6 Jon Bon Jovi didn't like the song 'Livin' on a Prayer' at all, so the band included it as a hidden track on an album because he didn't deem it worthy to be a regular track.

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#7 Murder rates were so high during the 1980's in Miami, Florida that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office rented a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses.

#8 According to songwriter Steve Kipner, the Olivia Newton John song Physical was originally written for "a macho male rock figure like Rod Stewart."

#9 McDonalds Chicken McNuggets were put on its ever-expanding menu in 1981, changing the lives of children everywhere.

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#10 1987 is the first time that the Simpsons, invented by Matt Groening, are shown as a series of 30 seconds spots in the Tracey Ullman show. Because of its success, it becomes a 30 minute series of it's own.

#11 “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980's new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming.

#12 The drink that gives you wings, Red Bull, was actually first available in 1987. They even used the same slogan.

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#13 The awesome guitar in Michael Jackson’s song ‘Beat It’ was none other than Eddie Van Halen.

#14 In July 1981, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are getting married at Saint Paul’s cathedral in London. 500 million people worldwide, are following the ceremony on the television.

#15 Domino’s Pizza had a campaign centered around “The Noid.” It was discontinued in 1989 after a mentally ill man named Kenneth Noid took Domino’s Pizza workers hostage after he thought the ads were a personal attack on him.

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#16 80's band Duran Duran got their name from a character in a 1960's film Barbarella that starred Jane Fonda.

#17 Computers in the early 80's only had 64 kilobytes of memory and the first 1 GB hard drive cost $40,000 and weighed over 500 pounds.

#18 MTV kicked off in 1981, the first video ever played was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles. Quite appropriate, don’t you think?

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#19 There were a total of eight Friday the 13th’ movies released throughout the decade, ensuring sleepless nights for at least a couple of days once a year or so.

#20 In the 1980s Susan B. Anthony dollars were so unpopular the US Mint had to keep $500 million worth of the coins in storage because there was no demand to circulate them.

#21 In 1984, when American Greetings was developing Care Bears, they were top secret and only called Project 2. Project 1, by the way, was none other than Strawberry Shortcake.

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#22 In 1987, 45% of all mattress sales were waterbeds. That is disturbing.

#23 Tipper Gore started the Parents Music Resource Center(PMRC), during the 80's, and the group is responsible for the parental advisory stickers on albums and now games.

#24 Believe it or not.. The lead singer of Flock of Seagulls was a hairdresser before he joined the group.