Sunday, July 12, 2015

Trivia Bits 12 July

 

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 Starring as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s unlikely twin brother in the 1988 comedy Twins (poster pictured) was American actor, producer and director Danny De Vito with both Schwarzenegger and DeVito agreeing with the studio to take 20% of the film's box office, which resulted in them receiving the one of the biggest pay checks of their movie careers as it grossed $US216,614,388.00.

Festivus, a non-commercial alternative to Christmas, was popularised by the TV sitcom Seinfeld and entered popular culture after it was made the focus of a 1997 episode of the series.

Swedish director, writer and producer Ingmar Bergman was born Ernst Ingmar Bergman in 1944 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Erik Bergman, a Lutheran minister and later chaplain to the King of Sweden, and Karin (née Åkerblom), a nurse .

The video game Tetris was developed in Russia, originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov and released on June 6, 1984.

The Paragould Meteorite weighing 370 kilograms (820lbs) fell to earth on February 17, 1930 and was discovered in an 8 foot (2 m) hole on a farm south of Bethel Church, off Highway 358, a few miles south of Paragould, Arkansas.

Confederate States Army soldier Lewis Powell was one of the conspirators in the 1865 assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln.

Bruce, CQR, Danforth and Delta are all types of anchors which are devices normally made of metal used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.

The Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942.

The Island of Islay belongs to the United Kingdom constituent country of Scotland and is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland also known as The Queen of the Hebrides.

In the 19th century, craftsmen who made hats were known to be excitable and irrational, as well as to tremble with palsy and mix up their words and such behaviour gave rise to the familiar expression "mad as a hatter". The disorder, called hatter's shakes, was caused by chronic mercury poisoning from the solution used to treat the felt and attacked the central nervous system, the toxin led to behavioural symptoms.

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