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5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Ice Bucket Challenge by entadaplace2: 11:41am On Aug 22, 2014
If you haven’t been living in a cave, then you must have heard about the Ice Bucket Challenge otherwise called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. It is an activity that involves dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head and/or donating to the ALS Association in the US. The origin of the idea is yet unknown but Wikipedia says it became popular in the US on June 30, 2014 when a challenge was televised live on the Golf Channel Morning Show.

So far, over a thousand celebrities including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and our very own Don Jazzy, Genevieve Nnaji, Peter Okoye and others have joined in the challenge making it the latest social media craze. Here are 5 things you didn’t know about the Ice bucket challenge

1. It was started to raise awareness for and money to tackle Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a medical condition that makes the victims lose ability to initiate and control all voluntary movement including speaking, swallowing and breathing.

2. Forbes reports that the association in August alone, has raised about N93m, and over N2b since the challenge began a few months ago.

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Re: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Ice Bucket Challenge by experimentist: 11:49am On Aug 22, 2014
I been think say na iced shayo dey d buckets, I no knw say na ordinary water.

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