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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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Friday, January 22Rex Tyler was a biochemist at Bannermain Chemical who discovered that he could become a mini-Superman whenever he took Miraclo pills. Because his superpowers wore off after an hour, he called himself Hourman. It never seemed to occur to anybody that pharmaceutical-based powers might send the wrong message, so eventually the writers made Miraclo addictive. The current Hourman is a robot who can manipulate time. Harrison Ford's confused fans sometimes end up at the wrong star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Harrison Ford you've never heard of was a silent movie star. He was there first. The more famous Harrison Ford maintains the older one's star, although he hadn't heard of his namesake, either. The "wrong" star is at 6665 Hollywood Blvd. What children's song is widely believed to be an allegory about the plague that struck London in the 1660s? A) "London Bridge Is Falling Down" B) "Pop Goes the Weasel" C) "Ring Around the Rosie" D) "Three Blind Mice" Previous answer: The song "Oh, Susanna" got its start in Pittsburgh. 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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