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Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
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Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
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Triviabits for Monday, September 7Labor Day: Most of the world celebrates the labor movement on May 1, but that date is a little bit too steeped in radical iconography for North Americans, so it was moved to September. Today, Labor Day represents a symbolic end to summer and the start of the football season. As the old joke runs, today we celebrate the contributions of labor by not laboring at all. Errata Time: Recently, we had confused Oscar Romero, the murdered Central American cleric, with Cesar Romero, who played the Joker. Very different people. A number of people wrote in that the acronym MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction, not Mutually Assured Distraction and that we should have spelled the South American country "Colombia," not "Columbia." Finally, we had the word order wrong for the TARDIS: it's Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. What insects, sometimes called the world's fastest, are also popular because they eat mosquitoes? A) Dragonflies B) Hawkmoths C) Honeybees D) Ladybugs Previous answer: Brothers Dave and Ray Davies were the heart of the Kinks. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com.
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