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Amazing Facts & Trivia (23rd Edition)
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Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA
- Tasmania is home to the cleanest air in the world.
- Pall Mall in England was the first street anywhere to be illuminated by gaslights in 1807.
- In Japan, there are vending machines that offer wigs for your dog. I’m not kidding!
- Deep sea ribbon worms will consume themselves (up to 95%) if food is scarce and still live.
- Before he was a wanted FBI criminal, John Dillinger was a professional baseball player.
- The Beatles song, Strawberry Fields Forever, is a Liverpool orphanage that John would visit.
- Horror icon Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) encouraged Mark Hamill to audition for Star Wars.
- You can see more meteors in the sky after midnight than before 12am.
- Former 007 star Pierce Brosnan was a fire-eater in the circus before he became an actor.
- In Athens, Greece, an officer can take away your driver’s license for not bathing or poor clothing!
- What was the first video game played in space? It was Tetris, played on a Game Boy.
- In Las Vegas, it’s illegal to pawn your dentures.
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