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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 Saturday, September 5Beating the Americans: As a Canadian, this writer sees history a bit differently from most of this column's American writers. For example ... you guys lost the War of 1812. The Americans launched the war as a pretext to invade and annex Canada and that turned out badly, as Canada wasn't absorbed by the United States until sometime in the 1980s. In fact, one of the only real American land victories was way down in New Orleans, and that was after the war ended. Bloody TV: In the 2005-06 season, more murders were committed in New York City on TV than were committed in New York City in real life. With several editions of "Law & Order" alone, there needed to be a constant stream of killings to solve.
In 1971, Dave Davies was stabbed in the chest with a fork by his brother, Ray Davies, after trying to steal one of Ray's fries. Both of them were in what band? A) Black Sabbath B) The Kinks C) Pink Floyd D) Small Faces Previous answer: Elton John founded Rocket Records. 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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