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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 Tuesday, August 11Dixie Rises: A popular theme in alternative history writing imagines a world in which the South won the Civil War ... and in which somehow extending slavery another few years or so wouldn't have been such a bad thing. Winston Churchill even wrote an alternative history of an alternative history, in an essay called "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg." But perhaps the best-known speculation on Confederate victory is "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove. Joking Joker: When Oscar Romero played the Joker on the old "Batman" TV series starring Adam West, he refused to shave his trademark moustache. What is Asia's only great ape? A) Chimpanzee B) Mountain gorilla C) Orangutan D) Panda Previous answer: In Psalms, a cup runneth over. 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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