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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.
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.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
Thursday, November 19
One of the titans of animation was Isadore Freleng, nicknamed Friz for his frizzie hair. He had been part of the Kansas City clique of animators working for Disney before moving to Warner Brothers, where he was a key person behind such characters as …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 28On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan left Floyd Bennett Field with a flight plan for California. But instead, he landed in Ireland. He got called Wrong-Way Corrigan, and people thought it was hilarious, but it is actually much more likely that, when he couldn't get permission to fly to Ireland on purpose, he flew there "by accident." He later ran for the U.S. Senate on the Prohibition Party ticket, winning just 2 percent of the vote. Ken Forsse did animatronics for Disney before creating Teddy Ruxpin, which became a big hit in the '80s. The toy had a standard audiotape in its back, so it could talk, which was super cool back in the day. It even inspired its own cartoon. Sadly, the company that made Teddy Ruxpin was destroyed by the 1987 stock market crash and eventually went under. What part of speech is most frequently used to unfortunately split infinitives? A) Adjective B) Adverb C) Conjunction D) Preposition Previous answer: Lewis Carroll modeled the dodo on himself. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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