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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
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Wednesday, November 4Thirty years ago today, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 staff and U.S. Marines hostage. Several women and African Americans were released, as well as one very ill man. A number of Americans hid in the Canadian embassy, which smuggled them out. The remaining 52 hostages were released 444 days later. One of the students, by the way, may have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even under Communist rule, Catholics, including John Paul II, came to visit Lithuania's Hill of Crosses. For centuries, Catholic pilgrims have come and left behind crucifixes, and today there are some 50,000 of them there. Many of the crosses were left in memory of Lithuanian rebels who disappeared during anti-Russian rebellions in the 1800s, so the site has special significance when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, which tore down many of the crosses. What name is shared by Philip Pirrip in a Dickens book, by a South Park character and by each member of Gladys Knight's backup band? A) Pap B) Pip C) Pop D) Pup Previous answer: Stockholm is Sweden's capital. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions.
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