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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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Friday, June 19Vel-come, Ha, Ha, Ha: Romania welcomes tourists to Dracula's Castle. Well, it's actually called Bran Castle and strictly speaking, the "real" Dracula, Vlad Tepes, never actually lived there, although some say he was locked in the dungeon for two days once. That being said, it was a royal castle in the 1920s. After communism, a New York architect from the Habsburg family reclaimed the castle and nearly sold it, but changed his mind when Romania tried to renationalize it. Happy Juneteenth: On this date in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston to bring Texas back into the United States. As the story goes, he stood in a balcony of Ashton Villa and read the order enforcing the emancipation of its slaves.
What Chevrolet was named for Aepyceros melampus, an animal better known by its Zulu name? A) Cheetah B) Falcon C) Impala D) Viper Previous answer: The Rodent of Unusual Size was in "The Princess Bride." 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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