Portal:Denmark/Did you know

...that Jacob Dacian, a Franciscan missionary to the P'urhépecha Indians of Mexico, spoke 8 different languages and was probably a son of King John I of Denmark?
...that the medieval Horne Church in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
...that the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?

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