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Wednesday, November 25
Mortified by reports of famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas," and 25 years ago today, some of Britain's top stars recorded the song at Trevor Horn's SARM West studio. Bob George flew …Read more.
Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
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Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
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Saturday, May 16Like Lemmings: The lemming gets its name from the Norwegian word for "destroying," because of its voracious migrations. But the one thing you think you know about lemmings is not true. Overpopulation does not cause them to fling themselves, en masse, from cliffs. The myth of suicidal lemmings owes a lot to a 1958 Disney documentary "White Wilderness," in which a lemming migration (and mass suicide) was faked in Alberta, which is distinctly non-lemming territory. Bigger Than You Think: Now the seat of Santa Clara County, the "capital of Silicon Valley" was also the first capital of California. We're talking about San Jose, of course. It's now the third-largest city in California and the 10th largest in the United States, thanks to explosive suburban and exurban growth around San Francisco starting in the 1960s. Catherine Bell from "JAG," Adrian Pasdar from "Heroes" and Sarah Shahi from "The L Word" are all of what nationality, but only on one side of their families? A) Brazilian B) Persian C) Romanian D) Thai Previous answer: The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War, which began in 1618. 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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