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January 7, 2012 –The group LMFAO ‘s hit Sexy and I Know It reached No. #1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. This was LMFAO’s second consecutive #1 single on the Hot 100 following Party Rock Anthem. In doing so, Redfoo and SkyBlu became the first duo to achieve back-to-back chart-toppers since OutKast ruledContinue reading “Sexy and I Know It”

January 7, 1851 –Jean Bernard Léon Foucault first used a pendulum to demonstrate that the Earth rotated on this date. This initial experiment, which was conducted in the cellar of his home using a five kilogram pendulum suspended from a two meter cable, represents the first time the Earth’s rotation has been proven experimentally, ratherContinue reading “Foucault’s Pendulum”

January 7, 1961 –The pilot episode of The Avengers – Hot Snow, starring Ian Hendry and Patrick Macnee premiered in the UK on this date. The vast majority of the first series of The Avengers is missing from TV archives and likely lost forever – only the first 15 minutes of this first episode andContinue reading “The Avengers premiered”

It’s the Feast of the Three Kings (Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar), Little Christmas, the Epiphany etc. If you’re playing the home version of the game – the Gifts of the Magi were Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (or the watch fob and a set of combs, or more obscurely, cigar box and soap dish would haveContinue reading “Small things start us in new ways of thinking”

January 6, 1973 –The animated lesson series Schoolhouse Rock premiered on ABC with the Multiplication Rock series. You have to love a children’s cartoon that celebrates threesomes.

January 6, 1963 –See Jim try to swim to his dugout canoe through a lake of piranhas, while I watch safely from the studio, confirming the second pitcher of martinis is properly chilled. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins began on NBC on this date.

January 5, 1980 –The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight, was the first hip-hop song to made it to the Top 40 on this date. The Fatback Band used an original beat on their song Kim Tim III, making Rapper’s Delight the first rap song to use a sample, which of course was done without permission becauseContinue reading “Rapper’s Delight”

January 5, 1961 –Mister Ed, the talking horse (with a daily diet was twenty pounds of hay, washed down with a gallon of sweet tea.,) debuted on CBS-TV on this date. The horse wouldn’t respond to any of his co-stars, just his trainer, Lester Hilton. This meant that Hilton had to be on the setContinue reading “Mister Ed premiered”

The final gift tally (365 gifts): you would have received 12 drummers drumming, 22 flutist, 30 members from the house of Lords, hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock, 36 Fan dancers, 40 angry dairy workers, on permanent coffee break, 42 Swans, trying to mate in your dining room (avert the children’s eyes) , 42Continue reading “It’s finally over – the 12th day of Christmas”

National Trivia Day is observed across the United States each year on January 4. Turkeys Were Once Worshipped Like Gods While the turkey is currently America’s favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, in 300 B.C., these big birds were heralded by the Mayan people as vessels of the gods and were honored as such, soContinue reading “A great passions is the collection of historical trivia”