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Amazing Facts & Trivia (12th Edition)
Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA to impress your friends!!
- Actress Betty White has been the Honorary Mayor of Hollywood since 1955.
- Until 1984, buildings in Philadelphia couldn’t be taller than the height of the William Penn statue.
- Billionaire William F. Smith paid for the loans of 400 graduates from Morehouse College. Nice!
- Thailand’s Golden Buddha statue was covered in stucco and glass to cover-up the gold underneath.
- Yamaha originally made musical instruments then switched to motorcycles after WW2.
- John Adams defended the men of the Boston Massacre of 1770 and got six acquitted.
- According to scientists, the average body temperature of humans is going down (98.2 degrees).
- Kellogg’s Rice Krispies is known as Rice Bubbles in Australia and New Zealand.
- In the U.K., the word “ninja” is censored in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Guess who directed Michael Jackson’s music video, “Bad”? It was Martin Scorsese. Really!
- Soft drink Mountain Dew was first made as a mixer for hard liquor.
- Dragonflies can eat their own body weight in about thirty minutes.
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