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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 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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