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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 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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