In the 1970s, singer Anita Bryant was one of the first celebrities to stake her career on an anti-gay position, which turned out disastrous for her fame. She was a former runner-up in Miss America, and reached the top of the music charts in 1960 with “Paper Roses”.
Yeah, I agree, that is opinion, not trivia.
Or is it trivial opinion? <JK!> 
In play: Anita Bryant graced the May 1978 cover of Playboy magazine — in text. (I believe this is SFW.)
After the defeat of the law that homosexuals could not be Florida teachers, a newspaper reported that "Anita Bryant got out of her monogrammed Rolls Royce and did a little dance. Bryant denied doing this until she saw the tape. Then she explained “We don’t own the car. We rent it.”
Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 piston engines powered such World War II British aircraft as the Fairey Battle, Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire and Avro Lancaster.
The V-1650 Merlins used to power the American-built P-51 Mustang and the P-40F Kittyhawk were made under license by the Packard Motor Car Company, which had produced the Rolls Royce-based Liberty V-12 in the first war.
The first flight* of the P-38 Lightning was only 3 months after that of the P-40 Warhawk. The P-40 was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P-51 and P-47. In the South West Pacific theater of WWII, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of USAAF until the P-51D Mustangs arrived toward the end of the war.
- — according to Wikipedia
The lightning rod may have been invented by the Russians, several decades before Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the principle. A lightning conductor may have been intentionally used in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk. The spire of the tower is crowned with a metallic rod in the shape of a gilded sphere with spikes. This lightning rod is grounded through the rebar carcass, which pierces the entire building.
Benjamin Franklin never patented an invention. He considered them as gifts to the public.
U.S. Navy records are unclear as to whether the World War II Essex-class carrier USS Franklin was named after the celebrated printer, inventor, scientist and Founding Father, or after the 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tenn.
The Argentinian Navy submarine, the ARA San Juan (S-42) and one of only three, was last heard from last Wednesday, 8 days ago on 15 November 2017, and to date has not been heard from since. She is believed to be somehow sunk and incapacitated and sitting on the Atlantic Ocean floor east of Argentina. Its crew of 44 are in peril and time is running out for them.
In 1963, the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank in the Atlantic, killing all 129 crew members. Thresher was also the first of only two submarines that killed more than 100 people aboard; the other was the Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000.
Charles Stross, in his 2004 Lovecraftian espionage novel The Atrocity Archive, suggested that the April 1963 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Thresher may have been due to supernatural causes.
The McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber is a device for rescuing submariners from a submarine that is unable to surface. It was created in the late 1920s. Ten years later it was used successfully when the USS Squalus sunk off of New Hampshire. All 33 surviving seamen were rescued.
Nautilus was Captain Nemo’s fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton’s real-life submarine Nautilus (1800).
Nardo-submarines have been built by hand, by amateur labor, to transport drugs from South America. Construction cost is about $2-million, and are considered to be disposable after a 2,000 mile voyage carrying an eight-ton payload worth several hundred times their cost.
At 22,837 ft, Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America. It is the highest mountain outside Asia, and it is the highest point in both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
In mountaineering terms, Aconcagua is technically an easy mountain if approached from the north, via the normal route. Aconcagua is arguably the highest non-technical mountain in the world, since the northern route does not absolutely require ropes, axes, and pins. Although the effects of altitude are severe (atmospheric pressure is 40% of sea-level at the summit), the use of supplemental oxygen is not common.
They ought to find that Nardo guy and stop him.
In play:
France is in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
Narco?
France and the Netherlands share a common border, without Belgium involved - on the island of St. Martin / Sint Maarten.
France still has a tiny foothold in North America, the self-governing territorial overseas-collectivity islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the eastern coast of Canada, with a population of just over 6,000 as of 2011.
Hollywood Square’s host Peter Marshall’s given name is Ralph Pierre LaCock.