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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 Wednesday, September 9Customizable Content: In 2006, the Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" could be customized with any of 500 different first names. You had to download it for double the usual price, but that came without digital rights management. The title track from her album of the same name, it included an interpolation Diana Ross's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and was shortlisted for a Grammy. I Judge It a Great Name: Some people have names that are ironic, like Cardinal Sin from the Philippines, who was in fact a cardinal. Then there is Judge Learned Hand, one of the most influential lower-court justices the United States ever had.
A little bit, in pills, helps heart patients. A lot, in dynamite, blows stuff up. What? A) Ammonium nitrate B) Gunpowder C) Nitroglycerin D) Trinitrotoluene Previous answer: "Ulysses" by James Joyce was famous for a 4,000-word-plus sentence. 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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