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Saturday, May 18
In 2008, Abby Elliott joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live." This made her the first cast member to be a child of a previous cast member. Yup. The show has been on that long. Her father is Chris Elliott, who had been on the show in 1994-…Read more.
Friday, May 17
The most Twitter-friendly song to ever hit the Billboard Top 10 was "One" by U2, which requires just five characters for the act and song title. (Or six characters, if you count the space between them.) The song was inspired by the …Read more.
Thursday, May 16
In the ancient world, the Chaldeans were a Babylonian people who established an empire of their own, from 626 B.C. to 539 B.C., after overthrowing the Assyrians. Deeply traditional, they brought back elements of the even more ancient Sumerian Empire.…Read more.
Wednesday, May 15
You'd think gravity would be gravity. But Canada's Hudson Bay region actually has lower gravity than the rest of the earth. The Laurentide Ice Sheet left such a heavy thumbprint on the Earth's surface that there is less mass there. The lower gravity …Read more.
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012Sylvia Plath won a competition to edit a fashion magazine, only to spiral into suicidal depression. And as it happens, that's exactly the fate suffered by Esther Greenwood, Plath's character in her book "The Bell Jar." In Plath's case, the magazine was Mademoiselle. She tried electroconvulsive therapy to literally jolt her out of her depression, but she tried to kill herself with pills anyway. Later, she succeeded in killing herself by shoving her head in a gas oven, although some think it was actually a cry for help and that dying was an accident. Whose comic strip character had a daughter named Bonnie Braids? A) Li'l Abner B) Daddy Warbucks C) Dick Tracy D) Mary Worth Previous answer: Hitler had Albert Speer draw up plans for rebuilding Berlin as the capitol of the world. 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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