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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 18The Odd Life of Kurt Vonnegut: One of the lesser-known facts about Kurt Vonnegut is that he once ran a car dealership called Saab Cape Cod in West Barnstable, Mass., making him one of the Swedish manufacturer's first dealers in the United States. Another is that his daughter married Geraldo Rivera, which must have made for some particularly weird Thanksgiving dinner table conversation. Science vs. Religion: Although much oxygen is consumed by the battle between scientists and religious people, particularly American Protestants, the war mostly passes the rest of the world by. John Paul II once said, "From the viewpoint of faith, there can be no difficulties in explaining the origin of man, in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution." And the Dalai Lama has even said that if science ever disproves Buddhism, he would cease to be a Buddhist. Generally, felines have 30 of these, even though some of them are called canines.
A) Claws B) Teeth C) Whiskers D) Vertebrae Previous answer: The great egret is the symbol of the National Audubon Society. 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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