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unusual facts about 12 Days


Artemisia II of Caria

Artemisia is referenced in the manga 12 Days by June Kim, about a woman who mourns her former girlfriend by drinking her ashes mixed with fruit smoothies.



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12 Days of Brumalia

The 12 Days of Brumalia was an internet event presented by The Residents and Residents.com that resulted in an album of the same name.

Amateur rocketry

During Series 9, Episode 4 of the BBC's Top Gear, presenters Richard Hammond and James May were given 12 days to convert a Reliant Robin into a re-usable space shuttle.

Château Laurier

Stories of the haunting began when Charles Melville Hays died on his return voyage on the RMS Titanic from Europe 12 days before the hotel's opening.

Haste the Day

After releasing Pressure the Hinges and finishing up the 12 Days of Christmas tour with Calico System, Heavy Heavy Low Low and Flee the Seen, the band began another tour with From Autumn to Ashes and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.

Hitler's Grave

Daryush Shokof was missing for around 12 days which he said he was kidnapped by four Moslem fanatics who asked him not to show both his two recent films Iran Zendan and Hitler's Grave or else he would be dead.

Katherine Plunket

As well as being the longest-lived Irish person, Plunket lived longer than anyone who died in Ireland or Britain, holding the title for 38 years, until 1970, when Ada Roe lived to be 12 days older.

Love and Suicide

Moro wrote and filmed it over the course of 12 days in 2003, while attending the Havana International Film Festival for his previous film, Anne B. Real.

Painted berrypecker

In the Crested Berrypecker the female alone incubates the eggs, with the incubation period lasting for over 12 days.

Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker

Tomiko Suzuki (who had previosly voiced in Transformers: The Headmasters and Transformers: Super-God Masterforce) died after suffering heart failure on July 7, 2003, 12 days before the film was released in Japan.

Redneck 12 Days of Christmas

"Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" is a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" written by Jeff Foxworthy and Tim Wilson and recorded by Foxworthy on his 1996 album Crank It Up: The Music Album.

Ted Griffin

He was scheduled to make his directorial debut with Rumor Has It..., for which he had written the original screenplay, but was replaced by Rob Reiner 12 days after principal filming began.

Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear disaster, which was released just 12 days before the incident, became a blockbuster hit.

Tony Dauksza

He was iced in for 12 days but managed to complete the journey, traveling from Spence Bay to Bellot Strait east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago at the tip of Boothia Peninsula.