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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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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5Monday, October 5 The M.C. Escher drawing called "Relativity" is notable because the stairs it depicts go nowhere. In fact, there are three different sources of gravity, one for each stairwell. The painting inspired one of the couch gags in the opening for "The Simpsons" and a gag in "The Family Guy," in which Escher sings MC Hammer''s "U Can't Touch This" within the painting. (Weird Al also joked that his favorite MC was M.C. Escher.) Countries have their own Internet domains: Canada's is .ca, and Britain's is .uk. Even dead countries have domains. When Czechoslovakia broke up, it gave up .cs and the new bits, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, adopted .cz and .sk. The .cs domain was assigned to Serbia, but the Serbs kept using .yu, the old Yugoslavian domain.
You've struck a deal with business contacts in the United Arab Emirates. What is the nationality of your business partners? A) Arabesque B) Arabemiri C) Emirati D) Uaeian Previous answer: The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." This is an anagram. 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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