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Wednesday, August 28, 1985
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The Headlines
FAVORITE FOODS TO MARK A CHANGE OF SEASONS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Power of Love
Huey Lewis and the News
#1 at the box office
Back to the Future †
$9,049,668
The must-have
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Black (1969)
- Shania Twain (1965)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Windows 1.0, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) & DNA Fingerprinting.
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
14,891 days ago
(40 years, 291 days)