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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 Saturday, October 3Dennis the Menace Hates His Mom: In the 1990s, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the caption for Dennis the Menace with the caption for The Far Side, leading Dennis to say to his mother, "I see your little, petrified skull ... labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere." The line was much funnier in Dennis' mouth than in that of Gary Larson's Neolithic fortune-teller. Does anybody out there know what Dennis was supposed to say? Grammar Rules: Do people laugh at you for being picky about grammar? In 2006, a grammar mistake cost Rogers Communication $2.13 million. The Canadian telecom giant thought it had a rock-solid deal to use utility poles, but a misplaced comma allowed the supplier to cancel the deal.
The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." What is this called? A) Anagram B) Metaphor C) Palindrome D) Synecdoche Previous answer: If you're literally picking nits, you're going after lice. 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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