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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
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.
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Trivia Bits for October 29Uzzah tried to keep the Ark of the Covenant from falling to the ground and was smitten on the spot, leading some to imagine that it was an electric capacitor, since acacia is a good insulator and gold a good conductor. The Ark itself contained a golden pot of manna, Aaron's rod and the tablets containing the Commandments. It vanished after Jerusalem was sacked, but some believe it is in a temple in Ethiopia. In Genesis 6, it says there were "giants in the earth in those days." Say what now? These Nephilim also appear in Numbers. Some say they were the offspring of fallen angels and human women. Or maybe they were simply "giants among men," the same way that Louis Armstrong was a giant of the jazz world. Or maybe aliens.
What tentmaker from Tarsus watched Stephen get stoned ... and not in the recreational way, either? A) Mary Magdalen B) Paul C) Peter D) Timothy Previous answer: In split infinitives, like "to boldly go," you usually have an adverb doing the splitting. 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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