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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 28On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan left Floyd Bennett Field with a flight plan for California. But instead, he landed in Ireland. He got called Wrong-Way Corrigan, and people thought it was hilarious, but it is actually much more likely that, when he couldn't get permission to fly to Ireland on purpose, he flew there "by accident." He later ran for the U.S. Senate on the Prohibition Party ticket, winning just 2 percent of the vote. Ken Forsse did animatronics for Disney before creating Teddy Ruxpin, which became a big hit in the '80s. The toy had a standard audiotape in its back, so it could talk, which was super cool back in the day. It even inspired its own cartoon. Sadly, the company that made Teddy Ruxpin was destroyed by the 1987 stock market crash and eventually went under.
What part of speech is most frequently used to unfortunately split infinitives? A) Adjective B) Adverb C) Conjunction D) Preposition Previous answer: Lewis Carroll modeled the dodo on himself. 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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