Hardly a useless piece of trivia there.
I have a friend in Australia, one day I was looking at my wall calendar and saw an occaision called "ANZAC Day" I knew it had military origins in the combined military forces of Australia and New Zealand during the World Wars, but I didn't know fully what.
I asked my friend about it, and she sent me some newspaper clippings about how it is a memorial, more that anything else, for the Australian and New Zealand soldiers that fell in the battle at Gallipoli in WWI.
As I read about it, it struck familliar ground and ran almost paralel with the Canadian experience at Dieppe in WWII.
Both ill planned campaigns based on poor intelligence reports resulting in a much higher casualty count than necessary.
According to the article my friend sent me, Gallipoli was Australia and New Zealand's single greatest wartime loss, just as Dieppe was Canada's.
Sad, but hardly useless trivia.