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One of the most rewarding aspects of mastering a new skill is sharing that knowledge with others. While some facts are strange and beautiful, while others are completely worthless. There is a whole category of trivia that is so fantastic that you can't help but ask everyone you encounter, 'Did you know this?!' These are the facts that will amaze you and your friends, ranging from why grapes catch fire in the microwave to how long it takes the typical animal to urinate.

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Did you Know? John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Died on the Same Day

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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.