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Amazing Facts & Trivia (31st Edition)

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

  1. In Denmark, there is a lake that was hand-crafted to look like the entire shape of the world
  2. Before there it was “In God We Trust” imprinted on coins, it read, “Mind Your Business”
  3. Ronald Reagan gave POTUS Bill Clinton a jar of jelly beans to help stop his smoking addiction
  4. In 1891, a toilet paper dispenser patent showed how the paper should hang…over, not under!
  5. A woman’s wedding dress was made from the parachute that saved her husband’s life
  6. You could win $1000 by making 1900’s carnival attraction “Sober Sue” laughed or smile.
  7. In 1919, a New Orleans serial killer stated he would not kill anyone in a place playing jazz.
  8. Actor Christopher Walken was a circus lion tamer when he was 16-years-old.
  9. 4% of the sand on the Normandy beaches is made of shrapnel from D-Day.
  10. William Shatner sold his kidney stone for $75K, then donated the money to Katrina victims.
  11. Vasuke was an African slave who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first Black samurai
  12. The abbreviation O.M.G. was first used in print in 1917

.and now you’re a little bit smarter!

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