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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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Thursday, January 14Julia Louis-Dreyfus is known for playing the slightly goofy girl next door. And that would be true in real life, if you were filthy stinking rich. Her father, Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, is a French billionaire who chaired Louis Dreyfus Energy Services. Forbes pegs the family fortune at nearly $3 billion. The family is also believed to be related to Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish French army officer falsely accused of treason by anti-Semites. Florida's highest "mountain" is a sandy hill called Britton Hill, which is just 345 feet above mean sea level. That also makes it the lowest highpoint of any U.S. state, so you can argue that this makes Florida the flattest state. The flatness runner-up is Louisiana, although the next lowest highpoint is Ebright Azimuth in Delaware.
TMZ is a gossip website named for the greater Los Angeles area. What does TMZ actually mean? A) The Most Zippy B) Thirty-Mile Zone C) Total Media Zoo D) Two More Zooms Previous answer: Yes, we have no bananas. 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 2010 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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