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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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Thursday, May 28Girls in Bikinis: The Miss World pageant was originally the Festival Bikini Contest. But the bikinis turned out to be a problem when a Miss America, Yolande Betbeze, refused to pose in one. The pageant's swimwear sponsor, Catalina, responded by creating the Miss USA and Miss Universe contests. Crowned in 1952, in the first Miss Universe was Armi Kuusela from Finland. Canadian Football: Okay, most of our readers are Americans who probably don't care about Canadian football, but this is interesting anyway. Toronto's CFL team is called the Argonauts, for Jason's ship in Greek mythology. He was after the Golden Fleece with a crew that included Hercules, Orpheus and Theseus. He was neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat, nor a trade unionist, nor a Jew, but the Nazis still came for what Lutheran pastor and former Nazi sympathizer anyway? A) Gunter Grass B) Martin Niemoller C) Joseph Ratzinger D) Kurt Waldheim Previous answer: The crime in "Crime and Punishment" is murder. 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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