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Did you know ...

• more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s?
• The Happy Mutant Handbook might be the only book to chronicle a large number of underground subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s?
• the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
• two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China?
• until the late 1980s, the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?
• South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid?
• Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s?
• Anne Gregg, best known as former presenter of the BBC's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s, was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
• 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games?
• BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes, and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s?
• Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
• Russian humor thrived even during the Soviet stagnation period of the 1970s and 1980s?
• 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant?