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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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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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