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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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Monday, May 25Towel Day: When Douglas Adams died on May 11, 2001, an Internet forum proposed that, two weeks later, fans celebrate the author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with the first Towel Day. As Adams explains in the first volume of the series, "A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." You mainly celebrate by carrying around a towel all day and explaining, over and over again, why you are doing so. The Anti-Edison: In Greek myth, Daedalus had really bad luck with his inventions. First, he invented the labyrinth as a way to contain the Minotaur. Then the king was so worried about the Minotaur getting loose that he locked up Daedalus and his son, Icarus, so they wouldn't map it for anybody.
On July 9, 1976, what nice great-great-great-great granddaughter of the perfidious George III became an honorary citizen of New York? A) Agatha Christie B) Queen Elizabeth II C) Marianne Faithfull D) Margaret Thatcher Previous answer: "Macbeth" is famous for its witches. 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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