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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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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5Monday, October 5 The M.C. Escher drawing called "Relativity" is notable because the stairs it depicts go nowhere. In fact, there are three different sources of gravity, one for each stairwell. The painting inspired one of the couch gags in the opening for "The Simpsons" and a gag in "The Family Guy," in which Escher sings MC Hammer''s "U Can't Touch This" within the painting. (Weird Al also joked that his favorite MC was M.C. Escher.) Countries have their own Internet domains: Canada's is .ca, and Britain's is .uk. Even dead countries have domains. When Czechoslovakia broke up, it gave up .cs and the new bits, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, adopted .cz and .sk. The .cs domain was assigned to Serbia, but the Serbs kept using .yu, the old Yugoslavian domain. You've struck a deal with business contacts in the United Arab Emirates. What is the nationality of your business partners? A) Arabesque B) Arabemiri C) Emirati D) Uaeian Previous answer: The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." This is an anagram. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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