Mental Floss Flashes Back on 80 Facts About the 1980s
In the latest episode of the Mental Floss series List Show, host John Green flashes back to give 80 facts about the 1980s. A small sample of the facts include that it was Cyndi Lauper who recorded the theme song for Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Doc Brown nearly had a pet chimp in Back to the Future, and it took inventor Erno Rubik a month to solve his own famous puzzle cube.
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