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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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Tuesday, November 3Frogs don't drink water. They absorb water through their skin. Water pollution is thus believed to be a key reason for the diminishing number of frogs. About one third of frog species are threatened with extinction, and some 120 species have gone extinct since the 1980s. A 2006 Canadian study suggests that traffic is especially hard on frogs. In fact, amphibian populations of all kinds have been crashing alarmingly. A urinating statue called the Mannekin Pis is an unlikely symbol of Brussels. The statue of the little boy is in a lane off the Grand Palace and was originally sculpted in the 1300s by Jerome Duquesnoy. There are various tall tales about the origin of the boy, and the locals like to dress him up in various outfits.
The Swedish monarchy's palace is in the medieval Gamla Stan district of what city? A) Copenhagen B) Helsinki C) Oslo D) Stockholm Previous answer: There is an Iron Age, a Bronze Age and a Stone Age, but no Golden Age. 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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