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Saturday, March 20
One of the more peculiar, but lesser known, incidents in the Apollo mission occurred when an astronaut gave himself communion on the moon. Buzz Aldrin used a kit prepared by his pastor back home. The incident occurred during radio silence, to avoid …Read more.
Friday, March 19
To fight prostate cancer, the AdMeTech Foundation introduced Prosty the Spokesgland, whose theme song was sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman." The rousing chorus was, "Look at Prosty grow/Lumpety lump lump/Lumpety lump lump/No …Read more.
Thursday, March 18
ASCAP doesn't mess around. It will sue your butt off if you violate the copyright of its members. In 1995, ASCAP announced that unless it got fees of up $1,400 from each site, it would take legal action resulting in six-figure fines or a year in …Read more.
Wednesday, March 17
If you grew up in the 1980s, you may remember those GI Joe public service announcements. Eric Fensler parodied those PSAs on his website, adding non sequiturs. Hasbro was not amused. It sent in lawyers. But there were plans to slip the exclamation …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Tuesday, September 29
Celebrity 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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