Amazing Facts & Trivia (21st Edition)

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

1. Thanks to the Wallace & Gromit shorts, Wensleydale Cheese was saved from bankruptcy.
2. Huckleberry Finn was based on Mark Twain’s childhood friend, Tom Blankenship.
3. At level 256, the video arcade game Pac-Man stops playing. It wasn’t meant to go any further!
4. Orcas at Marineland Canada have learned to attract seagulls with fish. . .then eat them!
5. The Pea Aphid insect will explode after being eaten in order to kill its enemies. Ouch!
6. Actor Ving Rhames saw a homeless man while on a film shoot. It was his missing older brother.
7. NYC’s restaurant “Twins” employs 29 sets of identical twins. Makes sense.
8. For Nigeria’s Sesame Street, their version of the Cookie Monster is called the Yam Monster.
9. For 973 years there’s a garden in China that’s continually cared for year after year.
10. Seagulls can drink both fresh and seawater.
11. Male platypuses are venomous. Painkillers are useless, but the effects are not long-lasting.
12. The last letter Beatle George Harrison ever wrote? It was to actor Michael Myers telling how much he enjoyed his movie, “Austin Powers”.