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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, May 1Women You Want On Your Trivia Team: Geena Davis is no dummy. She is a Mensa member. In fact, while an exchange student in Sandviken, she learned fluent Swedish. Her other unusual claim to fame is that she not only took up archery, but came close to qualifying for the American Olympic team. Mind you, she can't be all that smart. She did appear in "Cutthroat Island." Women in Office: Long before Hillary, Victoria Woodhull was the first American woman to run for president, back in 1872. And her VP was a black man: Frederick Douglass. Nobody was sure how many votes they got, but Ulysses Grant got 3,598,235.
In the galaxy, the Earth is found in the spiral arm of what mighty hunter constellation? A) Hercules B) Orion C) Perseus D) Sagittarius Previous answer: The only country named for Jesus is El Salvador ("The Savior") in Latin America. 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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