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Five Pop Culture Urban Legends Gen X Kids Actually Believed

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Since it's Friday, today's episode is a bit lighter than usual. We'll be debunking five urban legends (or myths, if you prefer) that kids in the '70s and '80s totally believed, proving that revisionism extends even to the pop culture side of history.

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