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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 Wednesday, September 30Papist Trivia I: Lucia dos Santos entered the convent in 1925 and in the 1940s claimed she'd been given a three-part prophecy at Fatima, Portugal, back when the Virgin Mary had reportedly appeared in 1917. The first is a vision of hell; the second supposedly predicts World War II. After much anticipation, in 2000 John Paul II released the Third Secret of Fatima, about a pope murdered atop a ruined hill by soldiers. He thought it was about the attempt on his own life. Papist Trivia II: Adrian VI was the only modern pope, except Marcellus II, to use his baptismal name as his papal name. But he has an even more important place when it comes to papal trivia. Here's something to bear in mind next March 17. What country's patron saint was a Welshman named Succat, who was captured by pirates from this country when he was 16? A) England B) France C) Ireland D) Scotland Previous answer: Rene Dubos said you should think globally but act locally. 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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