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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 2Of Art and Monsters: Boris Karloff was not Russian at all. He was actually a London-born Englishman whose career began in Canada. That being said, one of his grandmothers was a Bengali from Calcutta, India. His other grandmother's sister was Anna Leonowens, who was the "I" in "The King and I." Leonowens also spent much of her life in Canada. She co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Legal Downloads: In 2007, after the end of their contract with EMI, Radiohead released its album "In Rainbows" online, allowing fans to pay whatever they thought it was worth. About one-third of people who downloaded decided it wasn't worth paying anything at all for, but the average price paid was 4 pounds.
From Balboa Hill, you can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic (technically, the Caribbean). What country are you in? A) Belize B) Costa Rica C) Mexico D) Panama Previous answer: Earth is found in the arm of Orion. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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