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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
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Tuesday, November 24It 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 before publishing his ideas, though, and was nearly scooped by Alfred Russel Wallace, who was developing the same insights. The term "survival of the fittest" only appeared in the fifth edition, the term having originated with Herbert Spencer. Richard Knerr and Spud Melin founded Wham-O, which was named for its first product, a kind of slingshot inspired by a device falconers used to fire meat at falcons in training. In the 1950s, the company mastered the art of turning unusual playthings into national fads, starting with the hula hoop, the marketing of which inspired the movie "The Hudsucker Proxy." Popularized by JFK's national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, what Wham-O product was made with Zectron? A) Frisbee B) Hula Hoop C) Silly String D) Super Ball Previous answer: Somebody with alektorophobia fears chickens. 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.
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