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Amazing Facts & Trivia (12th Edition)

Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA to impress your friends!!

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 Yamaha originally made musical instruments then switched to motorcycles after WW2.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