Fascinating Facts and Trivia

More married couples divorce in January than in any other month of the year.

5th January 1933 saw the start of the construction of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. It was completed six months later.

January 9th is known as National Static Electricity Day

As well as being National Trivia Day, today is also National Spaghetti Day.

(04-01-2019 13:41 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  As well as being National Trivia Day, today is also National Spaghetti Day.

you don'ta saya... (adopts faux italian accent)

Before Abraham Lincoln became a politician, he was a champion wrestler. With more than 300 bouts under his belt, Lincoln only lost one match in his career and was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall Of Fame in 1992.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima when the first atom bomb was dropped. He then traveled home to Nagasaki the day before the second atom bomb was dropped. He survived both and lived to be 93.

(04-01-2019 13:41 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  As well as being National Trivia Day, today is also National Spaghetti Day.

Now that is spooky because this morning when I went shopping to the Co-op I bought some spaghetti before seeing this!

As it is in the news today it is appropriate for here and by a staggering coincidence it is trivia
The tower block, which was known as Nelson Mandela House in Only Fools and Horses tv series is about to be demolished. It is called Harlech Tower and featured heavily in the television series both in the title opening sequence(with Del Boy's Reliant Robin parked outside) and in many episodes. It is not actually in Peckham where Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad lived but in Acton, West London.

A few other OFAH titbits
Derek Trotter originated after David Jason's character Granville in Open All Hours was seen by producer Ray Butt and appeared in a medallion(made of an old drinking chocolate lid and shirt open to the naval!

Rodney's middle name was Charlton but after the football club not the actor Charlton Heston.

Rodney's father was a diver in the Navy and was nicknamed Freddie the Frog-divers are called frogmen because of the flippers obviously This was central to an episode called 'The Frog's Legacy'

God knows how anyone found out but Trigger's(Roger Lloyd-Pack) real name was Colin Ball.
Rodney asks “Del, do they call him Trigger cos he carries a gun?” Del reveals “no, it's because he looks like a horse”. Trigger was the horse ridden by Roy Rogers a cowboy from the early 1950s.

Boycie's first name(reveal many episodes later) is Aubrey

True story. I once bumped into the actor who played Mike the barman at the Nag's Head(also in It Ain't half hot Mum!) while walking around London. His name was Kenneth McDonald.

The oldest rugby club in the world is Dublin University Football Club, founded in 1854.