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The Ice Bucket Challenge... Remember That??

 Ah, The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. If you haven't heard of it, you've been living somewhere without WiFi for the last month. When I did mine, I had only heard a little bit about the "ice water challenge" and I woke up to a nomination and wasn't aware of who I was supposed to donate to or that I was  actually supposed to have ice in the bucket! I used extremely cold tap water and donated my money to Macmillan Cancer Support, which was who the UK seemed to be giving to. Then I started looking up other challenges and seeing that it was actually the "ALS Challenge." I had no idea what ALS was. I had heard of Lou Gehrig's disease, but again didn't have a clue what it was, so it was time to do  some research . It was then I discovered that ALS is actually a form of MND (Motor Neurone Disease)  - or vice versa - which I  had heard of, and had known people who had suffered from it. In fact, you probably  all know someone who has a form of it - a ve...