Trends and Events from the Decade That You Completely Forgot About

Kony 2012

Kony 2012. If you weren’t tweeting #STOPKONY, were you even online? The non-profit group went viral after releasing a documentary on Youtube about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his many crimes and abuses of children. It got 100 million hits overnight, but lost traction after the head of the company was arrested. 

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The More You Know

  • Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
  • More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
  • A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
  • A man sued Pepsi claiming he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
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