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Did you know that the first Singing Christmas Tree took place in Mississippi in 1933 while the first indoor tree debuted in North Carolina in 1958?
Did you know that Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own followed the attempts of Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane MacGowan as they grew their own vegetables in an allotment?
Did you know that The Dog Who Saved Christmas won a "Yulie" on Entertainment Weekly ' s Popwatch column for "Best Use of Dean Cain "?
Did you know that in 2000, Indian Test cricketer Sourav Ganguly took the wicket of Lincolnshire 's 'Father' Christmas ?
Did you know that the 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol ?
Did you know that at 42 meters tall, the Schlitz Christmas Candle in Schlitz , Germany , is believed to be the tallest non-wax candle in the world?
Did you know that the swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performed music for a special Christmas episode of Phineas and Ferb ?
Did you know that postman Michael Gallagher predicted that Ireland would experience a white Christmas in 2009?
Did you know that the Roman orator Cicero once publicly criticized Julius Caesar 's father-in-law for enjoying too much Colli Piacentini wine ?
Did you know that the 2009 television movie A Dog Named Christmas was based on a novel by Greg Kincaid, who said his family hated the story when he originally wrote it?
Did you know that Christmas cookies can trace their origin to recipes from Medieval Europe ?
Did you know that luminarias , a Christmas Eve tradition in Santa Fe, New Mexico today, were described in colonial Mexico in the early 16th century?
Did you know that the 1913 film Scrooge was the first time that British actor Seymour Hicks played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in film, the other being in 1935?
Did you know that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria " during World War I ?
Did you know that the Benji Christmas special Benji's Very Own Christmas Story was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1979?
Did you know that the Peace Candle of the World , a 50-foot candle-like structure in Scappoose , Oregon , is decorated with Christmas lights every holiday season ?
Did you know that the annual 7 Up Christmas on Ice event was launched by ice dancer Jayne Torvill in 2009?
Did you know that James Edgar has been credited as the first department store Santa Claus ?
Did you know that Uruguayan footballer Vladas Douksas ' father was a Lithuanian shopkeeper ?
Did you know that the tradition of the Vatican Christmas Tree at Saint Peter's Square started in 1982 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II , at his personal request?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten helped to replace the Grancino double bass of Adrian Beers MBE , after it was destroyed in the Snape Maltings concert hall fire?
Did you know that using much of South Dakota Highway 87 costs $15 per vehicle due to state park admission fees?
Did you know that Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein , appointed as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the National Institutes of Health ?
Did you know that proposed sources of khutu have included narwhal , walrus , and mammoth ivory, the frontal bones of bulls, goats, and birds, the teeth of snakes, fish, and hippopotamuses , and the root of a tree?
Did you know that Charles W. Howard , who portrayed Santa Claus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 17 years, founded the world's oldest Santa Claus School?
Did you know that Japanese singer and actress Junko Sakurada was part of a trio on Star Tanjō! with musicians Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori?
Did you know that the 1999 Christmas Eve edition of Morning Ireland was a tribute to those who died in The Troubles of Northern Ireland and featured contributions from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton ?
Did you know that clarinetist Robert Lindemann played in the controversial American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg 's Pierrot Lunaire ?
Did you know that the rodent Oryzomys peninsulae had only been found alongside one Mexican river, which no longer exists?
Did you know that the earliest surviving aristocratic wax seal from Spain is found on a 1179 document of Castilian nobleman Pedro Manrique de Lara ?
Did you know that the matswaniste movement in French Equatorial Africa , l'Amicale des Originaires , developed from a self-help group into a political movement and later into a messianic religious community?
Did you know that in Nazi Germany, Christmas featured decorating Christmas trees with swastikas , Germanic "sun wheels" and SS -style Nordic sig runes ?
Did you know that worldwide the major source of morphine for medical and scientific use is not opium but poppy straw ?
Did you know that the Pfitzner Flyer , the first monoplane built and flown in the US, used telescopic wing-tips to avoid infringement of the Wright brothers' wing warping patents?
Did you know that the constitution the Convention of 1833 proposed for Mexican Texas was the first to prohibit imprisonment for debt ?
Did you know that most lake-dwelling grayling in the American West today can be genetically traced to Yellowstone Park 's Grebe Lake , where millions of fish eggs were harvested and distributed from 1931 to 1956?
Did you know that the Honduran milk snake 's color resemblance to the coral snake , known as Batesian mimicry , helps protect it from potential predators?
Did you know that Victorian policeman Thomas Arnold did not believe that Mary Kelly was a victim of Jack the Ripper ?
Did you know that, according to the pizza theorem , a circular pizza that is sliced off-center into eight equal-angled wedges can still be divided equally between two people?
Did you know that the main guns of the canceled Greek battleship Salamis were bought by the British to arm the Abercrombie -class monitors during World War I ?
Did you know that although no eruptions from the Segula Volcano have been recorded, there are lava flows on it which may only be a few hundred years old?
Did you know that plants of the genus Hydnophytum have bulbous stems which are honeycombed with ant tunnels?
Did you know that in response to rioting in Oporto over price increases for Port wine , the Marquis of Pombal had several members of the Factory House executed?
Did you know that the Swedish port of Gustavia was destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte 's forces only a year after its construction had begun?
Did you know that the twelve One Day International centuries scored by Marcus Trescothick is the most by an English cricketer ?
Did you know that the broadside of the 14-gun brig HMS Speedy was so slight, Commander Lord Thomas Cochrane was able to put it all in his pockets?
Did you know that wine historians have speculated that the Italian grape Greco may have been used to make the Roman " cult wine " Falernian ?
Did you know that Lê Văn Hưu was the first Vietnamese historian who praised the revolt of the Trưng Sisters against the Han Dynasty ?
Did you know that the population of the village of Dode was wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century ?
Did you know that the Chestnut Sparrow , which usurps nests from weavers , may be evolving into a brood parasite ?
Did you know that former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears secretly delivered a briefcase containing $200,000 from financier Robert Vesco to the 1972 campaign of Richard Nixon ?
Did you know that the Heroninos Archive contains examples of a complex and standardized system of accounting used in 3rd century Roman Egypt ?
Did you know that, prior to entering professional wrestling , Derick Neikirk was drafted by Major League Baseball 's Detroit Tigers ?
Did you know that the January 1985 Arctic outbreak delayed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan by an entire day and led to the ceremony being held indoors?
Did you know that the town of Yubileyny in Moscow Oblast , Russia , annexed a small strip of land to avoid being completely surrounded by the city of Korolyov ?
Did you know that the larvae of the Silky Hairstreak secrete substances that attract ants ?
Did you know that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe , Hans-Georg von Seidel , said after World War II that " Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"?
Did you know that after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century, salmon and steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in Oregon ?
Did you know that femoral pores are a part of a secretory gland found on the thighs of certain lizards which release pheromones to attract mates or mark territory?
Did you know that after exhausting his shot fighting a privateer for two days, Commander Hugh Downman of HMS Speedy was reduced to firing nails at his opponent?
Did you know that Głos magazine was closed during the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland ?
Did you know that classical guitarist and composer Fernando Sor 's most popular work, Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart , was written in 1821 and dedicated to his brother Carlos?
Did you know that the Fred and Esther Dundee House in Oregon was built for race car driver Fred Dundee?
Did you know that in capturing the Spanish frigate Santa Dorotea Captain Manley Dixon had two men wounded on his ship , compared to 20 killed and 32 wounded on the Santa Dorotea ?
Did you know that Amaldus Nielsen has been called Norway 's first naturalist painter?
Did you know that in a manner unusual for snakes , the female Natal rock python guards its hatchlings for up to two weeks after they emerge from their eggs to protect them from predators?
Did you know that at least seven members of the Scottish Argentine Brown family have played international football for Argentina ?
Did you know that Lizzy Clark , in the 2008 BBC film Dustbin Baby , is the first actor with Asperger syndrome to portray a character having it?
Did you know that Valle Crucis Abbey , built by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor in 1201, is home to the only remaining monastic fishpond in Wales ?
Did you know that football player Al Pollard quit the United States Military Academy because he was connected to a cribbing scandal?
Did you know that the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus gave a piece of the true cross to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice ?
Did you know that the moisture-adapted asteracean plant Argyroxiphium grayanum represents one extreme in the adaptive radiation of its genus , which also includes drought-adapted mountain plants?
Did you know that Move Like Michael Jackson , a BBC Three talent show which aims to find people who can dance like the late entertainer , is judged by Jackson's elder brother, Jermaine ?
Did you know that after the Swedes twice failed to take Bremen , they founded a new town nearby ?
Did you know that after a short career in films, Elaine Shepard was a journalist in Vietnam ?
Did you know that the practice of breeding show dogs has produced popular sire effects that reduce genetic diversity and can exacerbate the spread of inherited diseases?
Did you know that when Champoux Vineyard was first planted in Washington State , the aim was to produce grapes that rivaled the First Growth Bordeaux estate Chateau Lafite ?
Did you know that sales of Interpol 's records have numbered more than two million worldwide?
Did you know that the three remaining Shakers live at and maintain Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village , a National Historic Landmark in Maine ?
Did you know that in Strategic Command , a series of turn-based strategy video games taking place during World War II , the player may persuade neutral states to join the conflict using diplomatic pressure?
Did you know that Patrick Murphy tried to help rebels in Naco , Mexico , by dropping homemade suitcase bombs from his airplane?
Did you know that in a career lasting four decades, British actor William Lugg appeared in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1884 and the film Scrooge in 1913?
Did you know that the naturally rocky knoll Dùn Foulag , on the isle of Coll within the Scottish Hebrides , was once mistakenly thought to have been the ruined remains of a fortress ?
Did you know that in May 2009, pentachlorobenzene was added to the list of chemical compounds covered by the Stockholm Convention , an international treaty which restricts the production and use of persistent organic pollutants ?
Did you know that Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging , mining , and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Skorpa prisoner of war camp was the main Norwegian POW camp in Northern Norway during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign , holding some 500 German military and civilian prisoners?
Did you know that the white French wine grape Baroque was nearly extinct before restaurateur Michel Guérard revived the variety at his estate?
Did you know that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee ?
Did you know that the clique problem of programming a computer to find complete subgraphs in an undirected graph was first studied as a way to find groups of people who all know each other in social networks ?
Did you know that the intermittent Lake Palčje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia is filled with water only three months each year?
Did you know that The Old Wives' Tale , an English Renaissance play by George Peele , was the first English work satirizing the romantic dramas popular at the time?
Did you know that Hjalmar Steenstrup was selected to represent the Norwegian concentration camp prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials ?
Did you know that Acabou Chorare , a 1972 album by Novos Baianos , was ranked number 1 by Rolling Stone magazine in 2007 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of Brazilian music ?
Did you know that unlike most other forms of bacon , Zeeuws spek (" Zeeland bacon") from the Netherlands is sold pre-cooked?
Did you know that Sir Frederick Stovin was removed from command of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders in 1821, after scandalising the regiment by demanding they wear trousers?
Did you know that the 1510 conquest of Goa by the Portuguese Governor Albuquerque was accomplished with the help of the Hindus against a Muslim army?
Did you know that Team Oregon has been ranked in 2004 as the best motorcycle training program in the United States?
Did you know that in 1989 the song " La Chica de Humo " became the third number-one single by Mexican singer Emmanuel in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart ?
Did you know that Drew Sheneman was only 23 when he was hired by The Star-Ledger in 1998, making him the youngest full-time editorial cartoonist in the United States ?
Did you know that the George Felpel House in Claverack, New York , was built with the stones left over after Claverack College was demolished?
Did you know that the worm lizard Amphisbaena ridleyi , isolated on remote Fernando de Noronha , is known for eating snails and for climbing trees to drink nectar from the flowers?
Did you know that Katherine Reutter , a speed skater on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, had her thigh autographed by comedian Stephen Colbert ?
Did you know that one version of the 8th-century Irish text The Expulsion of the Déisi contains a passage claiming the Irish group known as the Déisi founded the royal dynasty of Dyfed , Wales ?
Did you know that owners of The Punch Bowl , a London pub , have included entertainer Madonna , film director Guy Ritchie and convicted criminal and Kray twins associate Freddie Foreman ?
Did you know that in 2006, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management hired an environmental justice ombudsman ?
Did you know that Christina Broom was credited as "the UK 's first female press photographer "?
Did you know that the Still engine was a combined steam and diesel engine designed to save fuel by using the exhaust gases to heat the boiler ?
Did you know that Cheryl Cole performed her song " Fight for This Love " whilst dressed as a ninja for the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In ?
Did you know that the nudibranch Murphydoris has a penis armed with spines?
Did you know that the 6 foot, 6 inch Swede Roland Nilsson of the Michigan Wolverines won six consecutive Big Ten shot put championships in the 1950s?
Did you know that in seeking to overcome the low in Congo – Zaire relations in the early 1970s due to the LICOPA affair , Congolese authorities sentenced a Zairean opposition member to three years' imprisonment?
Did you know that the Boston Brigade Band was in existence for over 40 years, from 1821 to 1862?
Did you know that Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo ?
Did you know that as "the first novel with a thesis ", Patronage by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth , published in 1814, opened the way for the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott ?
Did you know that the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon is expected to be the world's biggest wind farm on land when completed?
Did you know that World War II German fighter ace Max-Hellmuth Ostermann was so short that he had to fly with wooden blocks attached to his rudder pedals?
Did you know that Count Marsillac and Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun , opposing commanders in the 1734 siege of Capua , once shared a tent?
Did you know that plant species of the family Rubiaceae have supplied coffee , quinine , syrup of ipecac , dimethyltryptamine , and indirectly, warfarin ?
Did you know that in 1892, the Governor of Lagos , Gilbert Thomas Carter , ordered an attack on the Ijebu people of pre-colonial Nigeria "in the interest of civilization"?
Did you know that in Cambodia a person can catch the norry , an improvised bamboo train?
Did you know that in 1975, Iraq threatened to bomb the Tabqa Dam when Syria reduced the water flow of the Euphrates to fill the lake behind the dam?
Did you know that the death of a character in the Dexter episode " The British Invasion " was planned from two seasons beforehand?
Did you know that Xikuangshan mine was originally explored for tin but now is the largest antimony mine in the world?
Did you know that Sir James Shaw established the right of the Lord Mayor of London to take precedence in processions in The City of London over all except the reigning monarch?
Did you know that the nudibranch Onchidoris bilamellata can be found at a population density of more than 1,000 sea slugs per square metre?
Did you know that Odd Isøy replaced the deceased Kjell Bull-Hansen as team leader in Milorg 's sabotage squad Aks 13000 during World War II in Norway ?
Did you know that according to legend, the Bulgarian wine grape Dimiat was brought to Thrace by Crusaders returning from the Nile Delta ?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines Hall of Famer Phil Northrup won three NCAA championships in the javelin throw and pole vault ?
Did you know that Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island follows David Beckham on his quest to defeat the evil Mister Woe in order to restore peace to Soccer Island?
Did you know that the debate over the Irish budget, 2010 , which contains the first cuts in social welfare since 1924, revealed that the word " fuck " is not unparliamentary language in Ireland ?
Did you know that Boston 's Southwest Corridor Park was built along the vacant path of a canceled highway ?
Did you know that Ole Colbjørnsen has been called " Norway 's first plan economist "?
Did you know that the cap of the suede bolete , a species of edible mushroom , has soft velvety skin?
Did you know that Robert Hood Bowers ' score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
Did you know that since its launch in January 2008, DogsBlog.com has helped to rehome more than six thousand dogs in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that due to receding glaciers , in 1951, the Alaska Railroad was able to move its route and abandon a curved tunnel built in 1906?
Did you know that the 1955 Bo Diddley song " Diddley Daddy " was originally called "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum," but the lyrics had to be rewritten in the studio for contractual reasons?
Did you know that athletes from Michigan Wolverines men's track and field have won 43 NCAA individual event championships, 14 Olympic gold medals, and 57 Big 10 team championships?
Did you know that the adobe chapel built by Tomas Alvarado on the eastern third of Rancho Monserate in California is the only 1870s structure still standing?
Did you know that the mushroom Cystodermella cinnabarina can only be distinguished from similar fungi by performing chemical tests and microscopic analysis of spores , basidia and cystidia ?
Did you know that Berg River Dam is the first dam in South Africa where provision is made for flood releases for environmental purposes?
Did you know that producers of the Showtime series Dexter imposed security measures and staff members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks of the surprise twist ending of the episode " The Getaway "?
Did you know that the Carden-Baynes Auxiliary sailplane was the first motor glider with a retractable engine, and that it had a throttle in its wing tip?
Did you know that chef Bobby Flay highlighted a recipe for dessert using bacon from The Bacon Cookbook as one of his favorites?
Did you know that professional footballer Andy Bell spent nearly a decade with hometown club Blackburn Rovers , without making a single first-team appearance?
Did you know that the first season of the animated sitcom Home Movies was the only season of the series to utilize the " squigglevision " style of animation?
Did you know that Czech landscape photographer Vilém Heckel died during the Great Peruvian Earthquake in 1970?
Did you know that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , Grassy Island in the Detroit River contains 28 different types of toxic contaminants that exceed acceptable state and federal safety levels?
Did you know that chaplain Władysław Gurgacz , member of the Polish anti-communist resistance , opposed lethal force, but was nonetheless executed by the Polish communist authorities?
Did you know that the Beirut -born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?
Did you know that during internal fertilization , the black rockfish female produces between 125,000 and 1,200,000 eggs, and then reabsorbs some back?
Did you know that there is a mountain named after executed merchant mariner Captain Charles Fryatt , and another is named after his ship, SS Brussels ?
Did you know that the salt industry sector of Ghana aims to compete with Brazil and Australia in supplying salt to western Africa?
Did you know that the name of the ruinous dun Dùn Beic may derive from the Gaelic personal name Béc?
Did you know that the English ambassador to Paris , Edward Stafford , is suspected to have given confidential information to Spain before the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Did you know that the leader of the governing Free National Movement lost his seat in the 2002 Bahamian general election ?
Did you know that Nathan Drake , protagonist of the Uncharted series, incorporates aspects from Johnny Knoxville and characters like Tintin and John McClane ?
Did you know that Moussa Dadis Camara and Sékouba Konaté drew lots to determine who would be President of Guinea ?
Did you know that, referring to Pope Damasus I 's luxurious lifestyle, the Roman Pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus once said "Make me bishop of Rome and I will become a Christian"?
Did you know that Harry V. Gates ' former ranch became the Crooked River Ranch in Eastern Oregon and his former house in Hillsboro, Oregon , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you know that the C. R. formula was a proposal that had failed during the Gandhi – Jinnah talks in 1944?
Did you know that the Memorial Arch of Tilton , symbolizing the "victories of peace", is constructed in Northfield, New Hampshire on the site of an old Indian fort?
Did you know that the Cornelius S. Muller House in Claverack, New York , was used for Committee of Safety meetings and courts martial during the American Revolutionary War ?