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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 Saturday, October 3Dennis the Menace Hates His Mom: In the 1990s, the Dayton Daily News accidentally switched the caption for Dennis the Menace with the caption for The Far Side, leading Dennis to say to his mother, "I see your little, petrified skull ... labeled and resting on a shelf somewhere." The line was much funnier in Dennis' mouth than in that of Gary Larson's Neolithic fortune-teller. Does anybody out there know what Dennis was supposed to say? Grammar Rules: Do people laugh at you for being picky about grammar? In 2006, a grammar mistake cost Rogers Communication $2.13 million. The Canadian telecom giant thought it had a rock-solid deal to use utility poles, but a misplaced comma allowed the supplier to cancel the deal. The letters in "eleven plus two" can be rearranged to spell "twelve plus one." What is this called? A) Anagram B) Metaphor C) Palindrome D) Synecdoche Previous answer: If you're literally picking nits, you're going after lice. 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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