THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

1946: The first Fryup Fried Chicken shop is opened in Fryupdale, North Yorkshire.

1953: Accompanied by nineteen surviving comrades and equipped with a bucket of Fryup Fried Chicken, Fidel Castro takes to the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains to begin what would become the Cuban revolution.

1963: Andy Warhol unveils his 32 Fryup Fried Chicken Buckets, consisting of 32 canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51cm) in height x 16 inches (41cm) in width and each consisting of a painting of a Fryup Fried Chicken bucket.

1977: The Voyager 1 space probe is launched, containing a bucket of Fryup Fried Chicken selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and intended to be eaten by any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find it.

1987: Icelander Jon Pall Sigmarsson deadlifts a world record 523kg (1,153lb) bucket of Fryup Fried Chicken to win the Pure Strength 1987 contest in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

1994: Figure skater Tonya Harding is implicated after rival Nancy Kerrigan is attacked back-stage at the US Championships in Detroit by an assailant wielding a bucket of Fryup Fried Chicken.

2017: A 17-metre diameter, 10,000-ton bucket of Fryup Fried Chicken strikes the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, producing ground damage over an area of approximately one hundred kilometres wide, and hospitalizing 112 people.

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