101 Facts About The 1980s

greetings mother factors I'm Sam and today I'm going to be talking to you all about the eighties a decade of decadence antidepressants and default clones war it was also the last decade not to include yours truly making it a sad Sam 'less time indeed but I'm not alone this week I am joined by Libby off of the channel bloom and we're here to talk about all things eighties but what was pac-man's original name and why was it changed why did a couple of Illinois sue ACDC let us know why you think in a pop up above and was everything still black and white in the 80s I wouldn't know I'm too busy ruining any prospect of future financial security by spending all of my money on avocados sorry not sorry Oh meet sue anyway two out of three those questions are going to be answered so dust off your shoulder pads pull the edges off your dot-matrix printer and prepare yourself for 101 facts about number one the 1980s often shorted to the 80s if you're totally rad like me were a decade on the Gregorian calendar that began on the first of January 1980 and ended on the 31st of December 1989 number two the 80s welcomed vast socio-economic changes as a result of great advances in technology as well as a global transition away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism and we all know how great is less a fair capitalism is don't we right guys yeah number three crucially global warming first became well known to scientific and political communities in the 1980s prompting flustered scientists everywhere to run through corridors carrying large stacks of paper in an attempt to warn uninterested politicians about the melting IceCaps nice to know things have changed not number four in January 1980 the price of gold reached a record high of $850 per ounce so yeah good news straight off the bat or is that bad news I'm not sure I'm not rich enough to know whether that's a good thing nor will I ever be number five in April of 1980 media tycoon Ted Turner announced the creation of cable news network or CNN the first ever 24-hour cable news network finally people could feel depressed about the world at 4:00 a.m. number 6 in 1980 the iconic arcade game pac-man was first released in Japan and there was much rejoicing yeah developed by Namco the game was originally going to be called puck man but it was changed when someone realized that you can easily vandalize the P in puck to change it to well you know number seven though the sticky bits of paper were invented a few years before post-its were first released nationwide in the u.s. in 1980 from there the yellow squares took over the world allowing people everywhere to make themself look busy and useful by sticking them all over their computers number eight the first rubik's cubes appeared in Western stores in 1980 having already become successful in their native Hungary under the name beer fish Kotka aka magic cube and no not the tesseract you big nerds number nine 1980 also welcomed the first ever one gigabyte hard drive they cost a staggering forty thousand dollars and were about two hundred thirty kilograms that's almost as much as yo mama ah oh yes a yo mama joke so early in the video it's a good day for Sam number 10 in 1980 the u.s. chose to boycott that year's Summer Olympics why I hear you ask well they were in Moscow that year and the Soviet Union had decided to invade Afghanistan and supported the country's communist government's fight against the Mujahideen rebels dozens of other countries joined America totaling 66 nations who refused to take part Oh number 11 the following Summer Olympics in 1984 were held in Los Angeles California hey welcome everybody to the world West unsurprisingly the Soviet Union boycotted it you never expected international politics to be this petty but hey it was the 80s number 12 in 1980 the United States was gripped by the most deadly heat wave in the nation's history at its most extreme the American city of Dallas Texas reached a record temperature of 45 degrees Celsius or 113 Fahrenheit on three consecutive days the heat wave and resulting drought had an estimated economic cost of up to twenty billion dollars which is roughly 60 billion in today's money and claimed at least 1,700 lives number 13 in the same year Melton helens in the US state of Washington erupted after precisely 123 years killing dozens of people all the entire North Face of the volcano was completely obliterated and the eruption is thought to have equalled approximately 1600 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima number 14 the cultural phenomenon of Star Wars continued in 1980 with the release of its second installment The Empire Strikes Back hilariously in the early drafts of the film Yoda was named Buffy number 15 1980 was also host to the Wimbledon final between fierce rivals Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe widely considered to be one of the greatest tennis matches of all time the matchup featured two wildly different temperaments with McEnroe's stormy temper and borg school composure which meant it was then called fire and ice which is weird because fire should always win against ice it melts it but anyway Borg ultimately prevailed winning his fifth straight Wimbledon title after which he retired number 16 in 1980 Saddam Hussein donated $450,000 almost 1.5 million dollars in today's money to a child Ian Church in Detroit in response the city gifted him with the key to the city how lovely I'm sure they won't regret that number 17 the previously music based channel MTV launched in August of 1981 the first video ever played on the funky fresh new channel was video killed the radio star which is a good British song for good British people number 18 in 1981 the world was in rapture with the nuptials of Lady Diana and Prince Charles which took place on Wednesday the 29th of July at simples Cathedral in London called the wedding of the century the event was attended by Royals from all over the world as well as head of states and other dignitaries as well as family members TV coverage of the wedding was watched by an incredible 750 million people wow I think the only other wedding that beats that is probably between Ross and Rachel number 19 1981 was the third year running in which the u.s. city of Miami set a record for the highest number of murders oh that year 621 people were murdered half of which were drug-related there's a reason why grand theft auto vice city was placed in the place the trend was so extreme that the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office was forced to rent out a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to deal with the sheer amount of bodies clean up afterwards number 20 in March of 1981 the 40th POTUS Ronald Reagan was almost assassinated outside the Washington Hilton Hotel the perpetrator John W Hinckley jr. fired six shots all of which missed Reagan Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after emerge he was carrying out the shooting in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster with whom he was obsessed I mean some people say I'm obsessed with Jennifer Lawrence but I wouldn't assassinate a US president for her probably number 21 though the first verified case of HIV dates all the way back to 1959 1981 till the outbreak of HIV in the United States soon after it was linked to acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS though the epidemic raged for several years especially among gay men President Reagan wouldn't address the disease publicly until 1985 a decision now widely attributed to homophobia number 22 in 1981 an American couple sued the Australian hard rock band ac/dc for $250,000 you should have voted earlier in a poll up above for the reason why but now I'm going to tell you it's because their home phone number was accidentally included in the song dirty deeds done dirt cheap resulting in hundreds of prank calls probably doing that exact same voice I just did number 23 in 1809 don't worry this is relevant the small Spanish town of Hill Wescoe declared war on Denmark during the complicated Malou of the Napoleonic Wars despite having you know no ability to provide soldiers or supplies even in this case the people of a West car simply forgot about it for 172 years in 1981 and local historian in the town rediscovered the declaration of war prompting the u.s. car city mayor and the ambassador of Denmark to sign a peace treaty on the 11th of November of that year ending the 172 year-long entirely peaceful war number 24 in 1981 an American criminal named Jack Henry Abbott wrote a book about the reality of prison life entitled the belly of the beast with some help from the journalist Norman Miller Abbott had been serving a long sentence for murdering a fellow inmate and then carrying out a bank robbery during a prison escape but following a campaign of advocacy led by Miller he was released from prison soon Artie's book was published despite strong misgivings from prison officials weeks after his release Abbott stabbed a restaurant worker to death were refused to let him use the employee only bathroom in the words of every eighty sick come over that went well number 25 in nineteen eighty-two emoticons were first used by computer scientist Scott Fahlman so that he can add emotion to an email and singlish between serious and joking messages number 26 1982 was the year in which the cosmetic procedure known as liposuction was first introduced allowing rich people to circumvent the bothersome need for dieting and exercise number 27 the musical Cats debuted on Broadway on the 8th of October 1982 and has since become both a genuine cultural phenomenon and a source of humor owing to the ridiculousness of an entire Broadway play based on a group of singing and dancing cats still the show success is impossible to deny having grossed over 340 million dollars since 1982 number 28 also in 1982 Argentina decided to invade the Falkland Islands known to them as las malvinas insisting that they had an historical claim to the archipelago the UK responded by sending a large military task force to the islands which were liberated from the Argentine control after two months of fighting Argentina has since added its claim to the island to its constitution number 29 USA Today first appeared in newsstands in 1982 notable as America's very first nationwide newspaper known for its dynamic design colorful images and the inclusion of pop culture features and short stories the paper influenced the style of other newspapers across the globe number 30 in 1982 Time Magazine's Man of the Year and yes it still was Man of the Year at that point was not a man at all the honoured recipient was the computer funnily enough and I'm sorry but it is kind of funny Apple founder Steve Jobs was convinced that he was going to be selected for the award and when he discovered he wasn't he literally cried number 31 surprisingly Canada was not actually officially independent from the United Kingdom until 1982 when the Queen Her Majesty herself gave consent to the Canada Act and that's what it's all about number 32 in one of the biggest missed opportunities in history the American food company Mars decided to decline Steven Spielberg's request to allow MMS to appear in his 1982 sci-fi classic et the extra-terrestrial Spielberg then approached Hershey's who him to use Reese's Pieces in the film leading to increase product sales by perhaps as much as 300% sucks to be Mars idiots disgusting isn't it Mike number 33 in 1982 Linda hunt won an Academy Award for her role as Billy Kwan in the year of living dangerously in doing so Hunt became the first actress to win an Oscar for a performance as a man number 34 moving on to the whirlwind that was 1983 Sally Ride became the first woman to journey into outer space is what an incorrect person would say oh ho though some suspiciously patriotic sources.list ride as the first woman in space she was preceded by two Russian cosmonauts valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana savitsky in 1982 number 35 Microsoft Word was first released in 1983 and I genuinely don't know what people use before that I could research it but nah I'll just make a joke about it and turn it into a metahuman bit way easier number 36 1983 marked a nationwide American release of the mcnuggets having been officially invented in 1979 and released in selected areas of the US in 1981 soon after McDonald's was sued by Dougal McNuggets and angry Scotsman who objected to know he didn't Brady that was a lie but can you imagine if that happened number 37 in 1983 a school in the American state of Alabama attempted to ban the Diary of a young girl by Holocaust victim and Frank according to the school board records this was at least in part because the book was and I'm quoting exactly here a real downer Oh Alabama never change or do ya actually maybe change actually number 38 Vanessa Williams became the very first African American to win the Miss America pageant in 1983 the following year however penthouse tainted her win by publishing unauthorized nude photos of her and under pressure from the Miss America Organization Williams resigned as Miss America a few weeks before her reign was due to end 32 years later in 2016 the Miss America Organization publicly apologized for her treatment number 39 1983 also saw the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller widely considered to be one of the best songs ever written the so release was accompanied by a 14 minute long music video directed by John Landis which culminates in the iconic scene of Jackson dancing among a horde of zombies in 2009 Thriller became the first music video to ever be added to the National Film registry by the American Library of Congress number 40 1983 also hosted elk cloner one of the very first computer viruses to spread outside the computer system in which it originated the virus was created by a 15 year old rich sprinter as a practical joke even including a sarcastic poem as part of the infection however elk cloner was a harbinger of bigger more destructive viruses to come whoa number 41 in 1983 Bill Gates became the richest man in the world as a result of the success of Microsoft Windows Gates has since lost that title and regained it several times and is currently training behind Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos some people attribute this to all the money Gates has given to charity in comparison to other billionaires the meaning of life crack cocaine was first synthesized and produced in 1983 in the idyllic tropical nation of the Bahamas since then the crack appears to have taken the world by storm appearing in the blood streams of celebrities such as Robert Downey jr. Lindsay Lohan and Ozzy Osbourne number 43 1983 was also known for very nearly descending into cataclysmic nuclear apocalypse while working at a Soviet nuclear attack warning station in 1983 duty officer stanislav petrov was notified by his computer that the united states had fired a small number of missiles at the soviet union Oh a number of factors such as the small amount of missiles and the fact that they're not been picked up by ground radar led Petrov to the conclusion that his computer was malfunctioning which later turned out to be correct thanks Petrov number 44 in 1983 a preserved head was discovered at a bargain Lindow Moss in Cheshire England believing the remains to be those of his former wife Peter rain bard confessed to having merged her 23 years prior in 1960 when the head was later dated back to 250 ad rain barred attempted to withdraw his detailed confession visa Vee definitely being a wife murderer but we're still convicted of her killing number 45 following the series finale of mash in 1983 an additional six point seven million gallons of water was flushed through New York City's sewer system as approximately one million New Yorkers resisted the urge to pee until after the show had finished number 46 though it had existed for years prior Michael Jackson a silky-smooth execution of the moonwalk during a performance of Billie Jean on the 25th of March 1983 injected the dance right into the public's collective brainstem and we've been obsessed with it for years ever since years later society split into factions based on who could perform the moonwalk and who couldn't creating a subjugated slave class of non moonwalkers exploited by a small moonwalking elite well no not really but that is the plot of my first novel moonwalking me to heaven vailable in bookshops everywhere I can sneak it onto shelves number 47 in 1984 DNA testing was developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffrey's allowing for widespread use in forensic science immigration disputes and on reality TV shows much to the delight of young men everywhere who are not the father number 48 1984 also saw the release of Apple's first Macintosh computer the first advert for the Macintosh aired in the coveted halftime slot during that year's Super Bowl which I believe is some sort of large container out of which Americans competitively eat soup number 49 in the same year the IRA planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the ruling Conservative Party was holding a conference five people were killed and 30 people were injured when the bomb exploded none of which were the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who was the intended target number 50 on December the 19th 1984 Maggie Thatcher signed a declaration to return leadership of Hong Kong back to the country it's actually in China after gaining the territory at the end of the first opium war in 1942 Britain had control of the colony for over 150 years number 51 between 1984 and 1985 televised ation of the Ethiopian famine revolutionised charity fundraising the world's biggest music stars held free concerts around the world to raise awareness and on July 13th 1985 the Live Aid concert became the matrix of charity fundraisers with one great show followed by years of mediocre sequels number 52 on April 15 1984 Tommy Cooper left the world that he would have wanted to go making people laugh this was the uncomfortable response of the audience after the British comedian had a heart attack live on stage and the crowd wrongly assumed it was part of the show number 53 the summer of 84 saw one of the most hilarious marketing backfires in history with the McDonald's if the u.s. wins you win campaign mokou steamers received scratch cards with events on and if the u.s. won medals in that event the customer was entitled to free food however after several Soviet countries boycotted the competition America won 174 medals and McDonald's had to give away more than double the Big Macs that they'd accounted for number 54 back when the 1980s were just a twinkle in their father's eye George Orwell wrote a book about them published in 1949 the film rights to 1984 was secretly purchased by the CIA after the author's death in 1950 against his will the agency changed the ending of all Welles famous warning against government policing to improve global perceptions of the West completely missing the glaring irony along the way number 55 Coco was a gorilla who learned to communicate through sign language and found her way into everyone's hearts through her relationship with Robin Williams as well as a smaller but equally hairy friend in 1983 Coco asked for a pet kitten what she got for her birthday the next year and it was exactly as cute as it sounds number 56 less cute but in March of 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev who most of us know as the man who looked like he had something spilled on his head but he didn't was appointed leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev changed politics forever with his domestic reform as well as nuclear disarmament deals which helped end the Cold War but ultimately brought the downfall of communism in Europe number 57 on September the 1st 1985 the wreck of the infamous Titanic ship was discovered 3500 meters below the sea 73 years after it sunk but more than 30 years later they still haven't found jack number 58 in 1985 coca-cola sauce sales began to shift towards its competitor Pepsi and in an effort to reclaim customers they changed their iconic formula in shorts people all hated the change and it took only months before the recipe was changed back number 59 in May of 1985 the first findings were published that provided evidence of a hole in the ozone layer researchers added that the hole had been created by human pollution and in case you're wondering it's still there number 60 February of 1985 marked the official end of the in history between Rome and Carthage this seems like an unfair accolade to received though as conflict in the third Punic War actually ended around 2,000 years earlier and the peace treaty was mostly a formality stuff like this is just ruining the competition for real Wars number 61 all the previous facts are about to get even more impressive as they took place before the patent - one of the greatest inventions of all time on February 12th 1995 patent number four million four hundred ninety eight thousand five hundred ninety six gave the world the plastic thingy that stops the cardboard getting on your pita cheese iconic number 62 On February 19th 1995 a unanimous Supreme Court ruling legally acknowledged Long Island as a peninsula they didn't change the name to long peninsula though because that would basically Christmas for vandals wouldn't it number 63 it's commonly forgotten that between 1985 and 1986 Saturday Night Live welcomed one robert downey jr as a regular cast member as a relative unknown back then Downey jr. was a complete flop and is regarded by many as the show's worst of almost 150 cast members somehow though I don't think he minds too much these days Nintendo 64 John Hughes iconic teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off wasn't released until June 11th 1986 but data taken from the baseball game he attends in the film was used to pinpoint Ferris actual day off as June the 5th 1985 number 65 despite having been born in Tennessee Aretha Franklin's home state of Michigan paid her the ultimate re ESB ECT in 1986 by declaring her voice as one of Michigan's natural resources number 66 On January 28 1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 74 seconds after liftoff killing seven crew members in front of millions of live television viewers number 67 just three months after the Challenger disaster tragedy struck again when the deadliest nuclear power plant accident in history occurred in Chernobyl in Ukraine sending radioactive material across Europe number 68 in May of 1986 the European Union now better known as Britain's bitter ex officially established their flag as the 12 stars it's known by today number 69 don't worry Libby's other rumors bit the origins of the Mexican wave are heavily debated thanks for asking which you didn't the most popular origin story is attributed to one of two people in 1981 but the consensus is that the move was first seen worldwide at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico number 70 one of the longest and least violent Wars in history came to an end in 1986 yet another one the 335 Years War that took place between the Netherlands and the answer Sicily from 1651 finished in this year there were no casualties and not a single shot was fired number 71 1986 was also the last time Halley's Comet was visible to the world halli appeared in the inner parts of the solar system in 1986 for the first time since 1910 and isn't set to make another appearance till mid 2061 number 72 Red Bull first gave the world wings in 1987 in fact the drink now holds the largest market share of any energy drink in the world number 73 the first anti-depression pills prozac was sold to the public in December of 1987 for the first time it was hailed as an effective treatment with far fewer side effects than previous entered depressant that is not Red Bull although it probably has fewer side effects fad to number 74 got their first screen time on April 19th 1987 they appeared in a series of 30-second spots on the Tracey Ullman Show naturally people wanted to see more just not quite as much as we guessing nowadays love you steam times number 75 the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation aired on September the 28th of 1987 the follow-up to the original William Shatner series would go on to win 18 Emmys over a seven-year run and Patrick Stewart would go on not to aged a single goddamn day he is magnificent number 76 one of the biggest stock market crashes occurred on October the 19th 1987 on the day that came to be known as Black Monday the market lost twenty two point six percent of its value number 77 the World Wide Web lost a legend in 1987 two whole years before the world wide web was even invented more on that later future meme superstar keyboard cat or fatso to his friends died in 1987 years before his videos would provide the soundtrack to everyone who ever fell over on camera number 78 Princess Diana made history in April of 1980 when she shook the hand of an AIDS patient without a glove on live television this wasn't because she was the first world to touch one of us commoners with her real hand but because it challenged two widely held beliefs that the disease could be passed on by contact which by the way is a lie number 79 the Turin Shroud is a length of linen with what appears to be an image of Jesus on it it was long believed to be in the cloth of the man himself was wrapped in when he was brought down from the cross but carbon dating from Oxford University in 1988 showed that this couldn't be the case as the Shroud was only 728 years old number 80 on the 14th of December 1988 the first transatlantic optical fiber cable was laid down across the Atlantic the five thousand 66 kilometer ta-ta table had the capability of handling 40,000 telephone calls simultaneously connecting France Britain in the United States granted this fact was probably a lot more impressive before Facebook came along number 81 in 1988 after 1.5 million lives have been lost the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq came to an end and there was never any conflict in either of those two countries ever again right right no oh number 82 where Americans have both the dollar bill and the dollar coin we Brits only have the pound coin but this wasn't always the case until 1988 the English pound note was legal tender they were phased out because coins were much more durable and because the phrase pound pound notes y'all just didn't sound as good as dolla dolla bill number 83 just to give you an idea of how long ago the 80s were in 1988 President Ronald Reagan named the small business Person of the Year the accolade went to a little ice cream company owned by some men I don't know what came of them called Ben and Jerry number 84 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal host nation Canada achieved the impressive feat of being the first host country to not win a single gold medal on home soil if that wasn't impressively unimpressive enough they managed the feat a second time when they hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary that's the Winter Olympics Canada you're good at snow number 85 we've all heard the Domino's ads called to us through the TV and struggled to find the voice in our head telling us to do something about it but this took a much darker meaning when a mentally ill man named Kenneth Lloyd believed the company's out campaign featuring the noid was a personal attack on him in response noid the human one not the animated one took Dom Lee's employees hostage on January 30th 1989 and while no one was hurt the campaign was understandably discontinued number 86 on November 9th 1989 the Berlin wall which separated East and West Germany was brought down paving the way for German reunification in 1990 I believe David Hasselhoff was there too I thought number 87 in 1989 Tiananmen Square in China was the spot of major pro-democracy protests culminating with forcible action being taken against the protesters and spawning the iconic tank man photo number 88 the biggest solar storm in history was recorded in 1989 it became visible on earth on March 5th and was so huge that the northern lights were in southern US states like Florida if you hadn't guessed by the way that's a big deal because the Northern Lights are typically only seen you know in the north number 89 one of the most significant events of the 80s and probably the whole 20th century took place in 1989 when British scientist Tim berners-lee invented the world wide web and without that you wouldn't be able to like and subscribe today and what kind of horrible existence would that be number 90 the first design of babies were conceived late in 1989 when a pair of female babies were created in a laboratory of it laboratory the twins were born in July 1990 after having their sexes selected in a controversial process known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis number 91 the first-ever Nintendo Game Boy was released on April 21st 1989 it went on to sell 120 million units reinvent handheld gaming and stopped me getting a girlfriend until I was well actually that's not important is it number 92 sometime in the early 80s the naval Investigative Service carried out a huge search effort for a woman named Dorothy after hearing homosexual men refer to themselves as friends of Dorothy this of course refers to Julie Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz but the Navy believed Dorothy was the elusive leader of a ring of gay military personnel number 93 1989 was also the year in which pop song stress Taylor Swift was born Swift later named her fifth album after this particular year giving me the opportunity to write the fact about something I actually know about and have experienced directly despite having never set foot in the 80s number 94 musical parody artist and actual hero of mine Weird Al Yankovic revealed in 2010 that sometime in the late 1980s he turned down a five million dollar endorsement offer for an unnamed beer company he claimed that he thought it would be ethically wrong because a lot of his fans were young and impressionable although he now admits he wouldn't really mind the money number 95 throughout the 80s the Los Angeles underworld was dominated by freeway Rick Ross an illiterate cocaine kingpin who at one point was making 2 to 3 million dollars a week as for his cocaine supplier it was none other than the CIA who sold it to him as a way to illegally finance the right-wing rebel Contras group in Nicaragua number 96 the 80s were just a wacky time for drug dealing in Scotland rival ice cream truck drivers would sell drugs from their trucks they'd also commit arson and even shoot at each other in the streets of Glasgow in what became known as the ice cream Wars number 97 another decidedly cute name but something considerably more scary was the decepticons in the 80s back when transformers was just a fun cartoon and not explosions punctuated by shots and Megan Fox's cleavage New York City was terrorized by a gang who named themselves after the show's baddies members had aliases like a Megatron and Soundwave and they referred to Brooklyn a Cybertron finally a gang I'm cool enough to join number 98 throughout the 80s a total of 8 Friday the 13th movies were released scaring the Wits out of adults and children who lied about their age everywhere number 99 early cell phones made in the 1980s weren't as lightweight as current designs and could weigh as much as 20 pounds that's like carrying around an average-sized sausage dog or to average house cats taped together not advisable number 100 Margaret Thatcher reigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom throughout the entirety of the 1980s known as the Iron Lady due to her uncompromising leadership style she is remembered fondly by some that guiding the country through tumultuous times and vicious hated by many others for policies that eviscerated working-class communities whatever the side of the fence your run she was played by Meryl Streep so that's a pretty big honor I hope to be one day - it's gonna take good luck to drag me away from 101 the 80s are also responsible for some Co DeMaio being a significantly bigger event in America than in its native country of Mexico as with basically every holiday you love this happened because beer companies used it as a marketing opportunity manufacturing a new market for the holiday throughout their own promotions which is why when we finally get much I'm going to make a lot on facts t-shirt day so that was 101 facts about the 1980s we do hope you enjoyed it and hey if you'd like Libby's voice then check out her videos on 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