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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 9Lesotho, San Marino and Vatican City are all surrounded by other countries: South Africa, Italy and Italy, respectively. But a number of countries only have a land border with one other country. The largest of them is Canada, which borders only the United States. But you also have such peninsular nations as Portugal, Qatar, South Korea and Denmark. The first object created by people that produced a sonic boom was not an airplane. It was a whip. The sonic boom is that crack you hear when you snap it. To crack a whip, you create a U-shaped loop near the handle, and then snap the whip so that the loop moves toward the tip, picking up speed along the way as the energy travels over progressively skinnier material. Papua New Guinea and East Timor share islands with what country? A) Fiji B) Indonesia C) Malaysia D) Philippines Previous answer: Hepburn and Tracy were both in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." 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. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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