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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 9Lesotho, San Marino and Vatican City are all surrounded by other countries: South Africa, Italy and Italy, respectively. But a number of countries only have a land border with one other country. The largest of them is Canada, which borders only the United States. But you also have such peninsular nations as Portugal, Qatar, South Korea and Denmark. The first object created by people that produced a sonic boom was not an airplane. It was a whip. The sonic boom is that crack you hear when you snap it. To crack a whip, you create a U-shaped loop near the handle, and then snap the whip so that the loop moves toward the tip, picking up speed along the way as the energy travels over progressively skinnier material. Papua New Guinea and East Timor share islands with what country? A) Fiji B) Indonesia C) Malaysia D) Philippines Previous answer: Hepburn and Tracy were both in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." 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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