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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 4World War III: Ever wonder how WWIII might have played out? Had the Soviets attacked first, most believe the Warsaw Pact would have headed for Frankfurt, pouring through a less-rugged German area called the Fulda Gap. It is also very likely that NATO would have used tactical nukes to compensate if it were outnumbered and once nukes are on the board, the Soviets would have been tempted to start throwing them at North America. Yikes ... Other Ways To Destroy Cities: Hercules is credited with founding Herculaneum, which was named for him. So he gets the blame for what happened later. That city was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, along with Pompeii, Stabiae and Oplontis.
What was that again? You don't know what acoustics is? Say what? It's what, now? A) The study of logic B) The study of sound C) The study of warfare D) The study of words Previous answer: A student of cryonics could keep beer cold (provided he or she were at least 21, of course). 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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