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Did you Know? "Auld Lang Syne" was never meant to be a holiday song.

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Did you Know? Good Marketing helped make champagne a New Year's Eve Tradition.

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Fun Fact! New Year's Eve owes a lot to the Romans.

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A Fireworks Ban led to the Iconic New Year's Eve Time Square Ball drop.

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The ball was a no -show on New Year's Eve 1942 and 1943

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Did you Know? On the eve of New Year, other cities drop Pickles, Drag Queens and Fleas.

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Did you Know? Abraham Lincoln Was Also a Licensed Bartender

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Did you Know? Columbus Didn't Actually Discover America

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Did you Know? Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was originally titled as 'First Impressions'.

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Fun Fact! Mary Actually Had a Little Lamb

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Did you Know? Richard Nixon Was a Great Musician

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Did you Know? Ketchup Was Sold in the 1830s as Medicine

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Did you Know? President Abraham Lincoln is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame

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Gabriel Gacía Marquez refuses to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film.

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Did you Know? Don Quixote is the best selling novel of all time.

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Did you Know? Charles Dickens was little bit of eccentric.

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Where the Wild Things Are was originally titled as Where the Wild Horses Are...

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In Russia, Winne the Pooh was banned in the year 2009 because of alleged Nazi ties.

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Did you Know? Danielle Steele is the world's most selling living author!

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Fun Fact! Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur.

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Did you Know? Dr. Sesus wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 words.

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Chess can tell a lot about the history of players who played it.

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Fun Fact! There are different eras of chess playing; Romantic, Scientific, Hypermodern and New Dynamism.

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The actors memorized and played all the chess games in Netflix's The Queen's gambit.

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Did you Know? Chess is one of the oldest games of history!

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U.S. Chess Master Bobby Fischer was issued an arrest warrant for playing a chess march in Yugoslavia.

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Chess is a mandatory subject in Armenian schools over the age of six.