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Amazing Facts & Trivia (20th Edition)

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

  1. The Hooded Pitohui bird from Papua New Guinea has poisonous skin and feathers.
  2. Alabama didn’t lift its ban on interracial marriages until the year 2000.
  3. If you were born on Sept. 16th, you share a birthday with more celebrities than most.
  4. There’s an island called Just Enough Room Island in-between Canada and the U.S.
  5. While a prisoner on Alcatraz, Al Capone played the banjo in the prison band.
  6. From 1733-1755, the state of Georgia banned all lawyers. They were considered pests!
  7. The Stanley Cup finals had only been canceled once. In 1919, because of the Spanish Flu.
  8. The space between your thumb and your index finger? It’s called a perlicue!
  9. Hippopotami, although vegetarians have been seen eating their own dead. Eeesssh!!!
  10. Owls have three eyelids. Nice!
  11. In Pakistan, many inhale the smoke of dead scorpions to get high.
  12. Food Ink in London, England was the first restaurant where all the food, utensils, and furniture was all printed on a 3-D printer.
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