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1. Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance as Mammy in Gone With the Wind in 1939 - becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She was unable to attend the premiere in Atlanta because it was held in a whites-only theater. At the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, she had to sit at a segregated table at the side of the room. McDaniel died of breast cancer in 1952. Her final wish, to be buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, was denied because at the time of her death the graveyard was reserved for whites only.

2. There is a museum of bad art (MOBA) in Somerville, Massachusetts. The only such museum in the world, it is dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that would not be welcomed in any traditional museum. The collection includes "sincere art in which something has gone wrong in a way that results in a compelling, interesting image." The museum is located in the Dorchester Brewing Company, where the walls of the taproom are adorned by MOBA works. Admission is free.

3. In 2009, a team of scientists searched Scotland's Loch Ness for evidence of Nessie. They did not find the monster, but they did recover more than 100,000 golf balls.

4. A new-born giant panda is about the size of a stick of butter.

5. Blood makes up 8% of your total body weight.

6. In Japan, people see a "Rabbit in the Moon."

7. An estimated 1 million dogs have been named as beneficiaries in their owners' wills.

8. Benjamin Spock, the celebrated pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care, was an Olympian - Rowing, 1924

9. Mythomania or Pseudologia Fantastica are medical terms for pathological lying.

10. German chocolate cake originated in Dallas, Texas - as did laser tag, Barney the Dinosaur, and the microchip.