65million was the number I learned as a kid born in 1980.

While you're fact-checking Was (Not Was), be aware that some of the historical events alleged in "I Feel Better Than James Brown" may not have occurred literally as described.

I was attending Mardi Gras with Fidel Castro
Buxom cross-dressers threw fake gold coins at our feet
As we discussed the fate of the Revolution.
Suddenly, CIA men dressed in bikinis
Tried to stab us with fountain pens
But Fidel blew mustard gas through his cigar
And immobilized the lot of them.
Nineteen tequilas later, we had a deal:
Havana goes back to the Mob,
And Fidel and I open up a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken shops.

It is, alas, unknowable whether Mr. Was actually felt better than James Brown. How do you feel?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say, Was (Not Was) did not fact-check their lyrics while writing Walk the Dinosaur. The whole song is basically an acid trip stream of barely-consciousness. One of the writers has said it was about nuclear armageddon, so there's that.

Elvis landed in a rocket ship
Healed a couple of lepers and disappeared. But where was his beard?

In the 80's you believed anything anyone told you because there was no convenient way to look it up. Oh, you want to verify it? Better take the bus across town to the library, spend 30 minutes finding 4 dinosaur books, and then 3 hours pouring through them to see if they mention when they went extinct.

Why aren’t all musicians paleontologists?

It probably just rhymed better.

I don't understand this at all but I'm upvoting it anyway.

We did not have the level of wanton ignorance and denial of evolution that we have now. Back then, I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that half the country turned out to be so stupid.

Like did we believe in dinosaurs in the 1980s? Yes. Yes we did. Was our dinosaur theory up to today’s current science, no. But we knew dinosaurs existed.

The difference in 40 vs 60 years is big but 4 million vs 6 million is not. For 40 million vs 60 million, most people probably didn't notice unless they were pretty tuned into dino history.

most people knew about geological ages and the dinosaurs where in some millions of years ago but the average person did not know how many.

Try "11 miles an hour", I think they're right on with that one.

But "Elvis's Rolls Royce", not so much.

What other band had Ozzy and Mel Torme on the same album? And Mel sang about an accidental strangulation.