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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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Trivia Bits for Friday, September 25Young Right-Wingers, Old Left-Wingers: Winston Churchill reputedly said, "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." That's really odd because he was a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35. And then he switched back to the Conservatives. As it happens, anytime you hear, "Winston Churchill once said," it is pretty likely Churchill didn't actually say whatever follows. Original Basketball: On Jan. 15, 1892, the first basketball rules were published in the Triangle, a YMCA newspaper from Springfield, Mass. At the time, you were throwing soccer balls at peach baskets, which were nailed to the stands. This turned out to be a problem, because fans could interfere with the shots. What movie did the studio want to call "Pacific Air 121," only for Samuel L. Jackson and the blogosphere to insist otherwise? A) "Airplane!" B) "Air Force One" C) "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" D) "Snakes on a Plane" Previous answer: Sonic the Hedgehog lived in Knothole Village. 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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