Fun fact.

Via the DKos Diary Rescue...

It was on this day in 1865 that James Mason invented the coffee percolator, thus making this the only Holy Day of Obligation for Unitarians.

...and for most of the Norwegians I know. I'm not a Unitarian, or a Norwegian and I'm not much for holy obligations, but that's one I suppose I oughta observe (he says, taking a sip from his bedtime cup pot.)