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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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Wednesday, November 11This used to be Armistice Day, in memory of the Armistice that ended World War I on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. But in 1954, with fewer WWI vets and lots of new WWII vets, President Eisenhower signed a bill renaming the commemoration "Veterans Day." To further confuse things, in Commonwealth countries, including Canada, the day is called Remembrance Day. A Canadian poet, John McCrae, wrote about poppies blooming on the battlefields of Europe, and today the poppy is a symbol of Remembrance Day. PF Kluge's article in Life about bank robber John Wojtowicz noted that he had the "good looks of an Al Pacino" ... and Al Pacino did indeed play the character based on Wojtowicz in "Dog Day Afternoon." The robbery was intended to pay for Ernest Aron's sex-change surgery.
Fleetwood Mac might consult the Mabinogion to learn about which Welsh witch, who rides a pale horse and marries King Pwyll? A) Boudicca B) Morgan le Fay C) Rhiannon D) Tituba Previous answer: Malta's currency used to be the lira. 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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