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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
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.
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Trivia Bits for Friday, September 18Missile Trades: During the Cuban missile crisis, the United States forced the Soviets to back off and remove its missiles from Cuba. Less well known is that the Americans did some compromising, as well. NATO removed its intermediate range missiles from Turkey, which was on what was then the Soviet border. It wasn't the only NATO country on the Soviet doorstep. Norway shared a small border, too, and today, NATO has expanded into such former Soviet republics as Latvia. Idiots and Morons: The word "idiot" arrived in English in about 1300, having come from a Greek word for people not involved in public life. In other words, the only idiots are non-politicians.
Harvey Stephens did a cameo as a tabloid reporter in the 2006 remake of what horror film, in which he'd starred as a child? A) The Exorcist B) The Omen C) Poltergeist D) Rosemary's Baby Previous answer: Calamari is squid. 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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