Category: Health

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Yes, Gen Z—Millennials Drank Out of the Hose Because We Were Never Inside in the Summer

Dear Gen Z, we see your TikToks, your memes, your concerned faces when someone mentions drinking out of a garden hose. To you, it’s baffling. “Why didn’t they use a Brita?” “Wasn’t the water hot and full of rubber flavor?” “Did they not care about heavy metals?” You’re not wrong to wonder—but we need to talk. We, the millennials born roughly between 1981 and 1996, didn’t drink out of the garden hose because we were too lazy to go inside or because filtered water didn’t exist. We drank out of the hose because in the summertime, we were never inside.…
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“We Are the Flintstone Kids!”: How Every 1980s Kid Took Flintstones Vitamins

In the 1980s, childhood wasn’t complete without a chalky, fruity tablet shaped like a cartoon caveman. For an entire generation of American kids, Flintstones Vitamins were as routine as brushing your teeth or pouring a bowl of sugary cereal. They were the unofficial breakfast dessert, a daily ritual, and a deeply ingrained part of growing up during that neon-soaked decade. Nearly every child knew the shapes, the flavors, the jingle from the commercials, and the quiet thrill of pulling a Dino instead of a Wilma from the bottle. These weren’t just vitamins—they were an event, a moment, a shared experience…
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