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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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Triviabits for Monday, September 7Labor Day: Most of the world celebrates the labor movement on May 1, but that date is a little bit too steeped in radical iconography for North Americans, so it was moved to September. Today, Labor Day represents a symbolic end to summer and the start of the football season. As the old joke runs, today we celebrate the contributions of labor by not laboring at all. Errata Time: Recently, we had confused Oscar Romero, the murdered Central American cleric, with Cesar Romero, who played the Joker. Very different people. A number of people wrote in that the acronym MAD stands for Mutually Assured Destruction, not Mutually Assured Distraction and that we should have spelled the South American country "Colombia," not "Columbia." Finally, we had the word order wrong for the TARDIS: it's Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space.
What insects, sometimes called the world's fastest, are also popular because they eat mosquitoes? A) Dragonflies B) Hawkmoths C) Honeybees D) Ladybugs Previous answer: Brothers Dave and Ray Davies were the heart of the Kinks. 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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