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Amazing Facts & Trivia (31st Edition)
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Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA to impress your friends and dazzle your enemies!!
- In Denmark, there is a lake that was hand-crafted to look like the entire shape of the world
- Before there it was “In God We Trust” imprinted on coins, it read, “Mind Your Business”
- Ronald Reagan gave POTUS Bill Clinton a jar of jelly beans to help stop his smoking addiction
- In 1891, a toilet paper dispenser patent showed how the paper should hang…over, not under!
- A woman’s wedding dress was made from the parachute that saved her husband’s life
- You could win $1000 by making 1900’s carnival attraction “Sober Sue” laughed or smile.
- In 1919, a New Orleans serial killer stated he would not kill anyone in a place playing jazz.
- Actor Christopher Walken was a circus lion tamer when he was 16-years-old.
- 4% of the sand on the Normandy beaches is made of shrapnel from D-Day.
- William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $75K, then donated the money to Katrina victims.
- Vasuke was an African slave who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first Black samurai
- The abbreviation O.M.G. was first used in print in 1917
….and now you’re a little bit smarter!
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