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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, September 29Celebrity Snacks: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Elle Macpherson created a restaurant chain called Fashion Cafe in 1995. Meant to walk in the footsteps of the Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood, the chain also had many of the same problems. It didn't help that two other similar celebrity chains (Country Star and the Motown Cafe) launched at the same time. Within a couple years, all three went bust, taking Planet Hollywood down, as well. Speaking Celtic: Gaelic is starting to come back, especially in Ireland. The Welsh are determined to be bilingual. But not all Celtic languages have been so lucky. Manx, a language spoke on the Isle of Man, died along with Edward Maddrell in 1974. Per the phrase coined by environmentalist Rene Dubos, what should you do, even as you "think globally"? A) Act locally B) Look nationally C) Meditate universally D) Travel carefully Previous answer: Most of water is oxygen. 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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