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In the 1980s and well into the 1990s, everything associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger was big. Big biceps (22 inches during his bodybuilding heyday).

When software engineer Jonathan Abrams arrived in Silicon Valley in 1996, the internet was known for three things: vast amounts of information, pornography, and anonymity.

More than 5 million dolls were sold in the first year alone, brother. Here's the story of the WWF wrestling figures.

The idea was to protect children, but those billions of crime-stopping milk containers wound up scaring the crap out of them instead.

The 1980s series poked fun at public figures using puppets made by the 'H.R. Pufnstuf' team of Sid and Marty Krofft.

The public service announcements were originally meant to boost teacher recruitment—and NBC wasn't all that crazy about airing them.

Sy Sperling had one reason to reinvent the toupee: He didn't want something that would fall off during sex.

The company's Tab Clear wasn't supposed to compete with Crystal Pepsi in 1993. It was supposed to destroy them both.

Although it doesn’t have quite the same archaeological provenance as hieroglyphs or dinosaur bones, historians believe there’s ample evidence to suggest that the mullet has been around for centuries. And it's gaining popularity once again.

In the fall of 1923, street vendors in Santa Barbara, California received an unexpected bit of attention regarding one of their more popular wares: 'The San Francisco Chronicle' wrote about the sellers' “freakish little brown seeds” that “cavorted about t

He might have made it famous, but Jackson was far from the first to perform what street dancers called the "back float."

One sure sign of a toy craze is annoyed toy store owners, and in 1976, there were plenty of them. The reason? The Kenner Company had introduced a novel 10-inch latex doll that never remained on shelves for more than a few minutes at a time.