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Amazing Facts & Trivia (29th Edition)

Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA:

  1. Key West (in Florida) declared itself a sovereign nation in 1982 just to get foreign aid.
  2. Until only recently in Austin, Texas, could they legally rent apartments with no windows!
  3. Chronic insomniac, Howard Hughes, bought a Las Vegas TV station so he could watch TV anytime.
  4. The Presidential nuclear launch codes are stored on a special credit card, called “a biscuit”.
  5. A lost hiker in Saskatchewan, Canada cut electrical wires from a power pole to be rescued.
  6. The only plane permitted to fly on 9/11 was a jet carrying anti-venom to a hospital patient.
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart averaged 22 music compositions every year of his life.
  8. Speaking of which, actor Eric Roberts averages around 18 acting gigs per year! Wow!
  9. Almost three billion people have never used the internet.
  10. Only Antarctica and Iceland do NOT have mosquitoes!
  11. In 1971, the Harlem Globetrotters actually lost a game to their rivals, The Washington Generals
  12. The International Space Station does not allow alcohol, perfume, mouthwash, or after shave.

.and now you’re a little bit smarter!

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