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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Tuesday, September 1Mark Wahlberg Roles: Inspiring the movie "Invincible," Vince Papale became the oldest non-kicker rookie in NFL history when Dick Vermeil added the 30-year-old to the Philadelphia Eagles squad. The New Jersey man had been a bartender at Monksters Club and a substitute teacher at Interboro High School. Strictly speaking, he wasn't really a rookie, since he had played for the Philadelphia Bell in the World Football League. Not like that counts or anything ... DIY Furniture: When he was 17, Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea, whose name comes from Kamprad's own, the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd) and his hometown (Agunnaryd, in the southern tip of Sweden). Rather controversially, Ikea is set up as a charity to evade taxes, and despite its popularity in the Blue States, many have questioned Ikea's environmental practices and Kamprad's own membership in a pro-Nazi group through much of World War II. By the time the Misfits band "got the beat," they'd been renamed. A) Bananarama B) Bangles C) Go-Gos D) Thompson Twins Previous answer: Real roadrunners are a lot slower than cartoon ones, at only 15 mph top speed. 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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