10 Betty White is the only person to ever appear as a panelist on all the three important versions of To Tell the Truth.

The much-loved Betty White’s fame and appreciation got her to be a respected panelist on all the three major versions of the show, To Tell the Truth.

To Tell the Truth is an American television panel show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants and they must choose the “central character” whose unusual occupation has been read aloud by the show’s host.

The show was a big-time hit and aired on CBS television from 1956 to 1968. All three major versions of the show had Betty White as one of the panelists. (Source)

11 Betty White has had a long television career spanning seven decades. Her first job was in 1939 that involved singing songs on a first-of-its-kind experimental TV channel. She is a record holder for the “longest television career of any male or female entertainer.”

Betty White earned a Guinness World Record for “longest television career of any male or female entertainer” in 2014 and again in 2018 for her “lengthy work in television.” (Source)

12 Betty White has been a nominee for an Emmy Award in six different decades of her career. She has also bagged an honorary title of “Mayor of Hollywood” since 1995.

She also received eight Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three American Comedy Awards, and one Grammy Award. White was also inducted on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Television Hall of Fame in 1995. (1, 2)

13 Bob Barker and Betty White were not on good terms with each other because of an elephant. In 2009, Barker threatened not to attend the Game Show Awards because Betty was to be present there.

Bob Barker and Betty White were fighting over the treatment of an elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo. It was at that time that Bob Barker was to be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Games Show Awards. When he came to know that Betty White would be present there too, he threatened the show producers that he would not come if White was attending.

Eventually, White did not attend the show and pre-recorded her comments that she was supposed to make for another awardee, Mark Goodson. (Source)

14 Betty White and famed author John Steinbeck were good friends. Betty’s husband, Allen Ludden, had attended the same school as Steinbeck’s wife Elaine. The couples became close friends, and when Steinbeck was supposed to get the Nobel Prize, he first presented the early draft of his acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.

John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining social perception and sympathetic humor.”

John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were close friends with Betty White and her husband Allen Ludden. Elaine and Allen had even attended the same school. Their friendship was so thick that when Steinbeck was being awarded the Nobel Prize, he first presented the rough draft of his acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday. (Source)

15 Betty White was made an honorary Forest Ranger in 2010 by the Forest Service. She had mentioned in one of her interviews how she always wanted to be a forest ranger, but could not become as women were not allowed to do that then.

The Forest Service presented Betty White with an honorary Forest Ranger title in 2010. She always wanted to be a Forest Ranger when she was a little girl, but could not become one as women were not allowed in such professions back then. But when she got the title, almost ⅓ of the Forest Service employees were women. (Source)

16 There was a trending “Betty White Challenge” on Facebook and Instagram in 2022 that was actually a fundraiser to raise money for animal shelters. This trend managed to raise $12.7 million for animal shelters.

The Betty White Challenge. January 17th. #BettyWhiteChallenge

Please pass it on… pic.twitter.com/itufEumDE9

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 3, 2022

A viral fundraising effort has been started on Facebook and Instagram to honor the legacy of Betty White, an animal lover, and advocate for animal welfare. This fundraiser encouraged people to donate to help animal shelters and rescue centers. The fundraiser raised $12.7 million.

Meta revealed the information on January 17 this year, which would have been Betty White’s 100th birthday. The Meta Company does not charge any fees for the donations made for nonprofit organizations. (Source)

17 Betty White was the oldest of all the stars in The Golden Girls. Yet, she outlived each one of her co-stars. She was also older than sliced bread. Sliced bread was introduced in 1928, while White was born in 1922. She was also older than Mickey Mouse.

The four women starring in the famous The Golden Girls show were Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, and Bea Arthur. They all died before Betty White, who died in December of 2021.

Sliced bread was introduced in 1928 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Before his invention, bread was sold in whole loaves and no one thought that sliced bread could stay fresh. The sliced bread invention came much later than the birth of Betty White, and she saw the transition from whole loaves to sliced bread during her lifetime.

Disney icon, Mickey Mouse, was also created in 1928, and so, Betty White is older than Mickey Mouse as well. (1, 2, 3)

18 Betty White died at the age of 99, just three weeks before her 100th birthday. She was to turn 100 on January 17, 2022.

Betty White had a long fulfilling life and career. She was born in 1922 and would have turned 100 on January 17, 2022. But, she died just three weeks before her 100th birthday. She died of natural causes at her home. (Source)