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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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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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