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Fun facts from when UNLV won the title

BostonRebel

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I can’t believe it’s been 30 years but some fun facts:

- The top songs of the year were Ice Ice Baby and Because I Love You by Stevie B.

- Kathy Bates won the best actress award for Misery.

- The top movies of the year were home alone, ghost and dances with wolves.

- A loaf of bread was 70 cents and a Nintendo Game Boy $89

- The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series and Colorado and Georgia Tech shared the national football championship.

- Stefan Edberg and Martina Navratilova won Wimbledon.

- The “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercial debuted.

- The TV show Seinfeld debuted. Cheers and the Cosby show were the top rated shows of the year. The worst rated show was Cop Rock.

- HTTP and HTML are invented.

- More than 75% of the public uses AOL to access the Internet and blockbuster is a fortune 500 company.

- Smoking is banned on all domestic flights.

So yeah it has been a while!
 
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