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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 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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