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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
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.
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Trivia Bits for October 14Some odd people accidentally got canonized by the Catholic Church. Saint Josaphat was probably just Buddha. Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, was accidentally canonized in the fourth century. Castor and Pollux were the now de-canonized St. Cosmas and St. Damian. Other Roman gods who got sainted included Diana, Artemis, Helios, Bacchus, Aphrodite, Mercury and Silvanus. And St. Philomena never existed at all. Catholics mistook her for a martyr when the word "lumena" (meaning "dear one") was found on catacomb walls. Modern devices need patron saints, too. Joseph of Cupertino was picked to be the patron saint of astronauts and air travelers because he could apparently fly. By himself. Claire of Assisi became patron saint of television after she saw visions of a Catholic mass on the wall of her cell.
The term "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" was coined as a hoax in 1935 as the putative longest word in the English language. Who would get this disease? A) Divers B) Farmers C) Miners D) Prostitutes Previous answer: Tang is both a former Chinese dynasty and an astronautical orange-flavored soft drink. 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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