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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, September 1Mark Wahlberg Roles: Inspiring the movie "Invincible," Vince Papale became the oldest non-kicker rookie in NFL history when Dick Vermeil added the 30-year-old to the Philadelphia Eagles squad. The New Jersey man had been a bartender at Monksters Club and a substitute teacher at Interboro High School. Strictly speaking, he wasn't really a rookie, since he had played for the Philadelphia Bell in the World Football League. Not like that counts or anything ... DIY Furniture: When he was 17, Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea, whose name comes from Kamprad's own, the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd) and his hometown (Agunnaryd, in the southern tip of Sweden). Rather controversially, Ikea is set up as a charity to evade taxes, and despite its popularity in the Blue States, many have questioned Ikea's environmental practices and Kamprad's own membership in a pro-Nazi group through much of World War II. By the time the Misfits band "got the beat," they'd been renamed.
A) Bananarama B) Bangles C) Go-Gos D) Thompson Twins Previous answer: Real roadrunners are a lot slower than cartoon ones, at only 15 mph top speed. 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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