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Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
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Trivia Bits Friday, June 12RIP: Fifteen years ago, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death at her home in Los Angeles. Goldman had been there to return a pair of Brown's mother's sunglasses. The personal tragedy of the double homicide was lost in the subsequent O.J. Simpson circus. And they were just two of the 15,110 homicides committed in the United States in 1994. Most of them died unnoticed outside the families and friends that lost them. Rest in peace. Scarier than Koalas: The diprotodon was a rhinoceros-sized herbivore and the largest marsupial ever to live. The Australian creature may have been the inspiration for the bunyip. A Frank Black rock band gets its name from what green-clad elfin race from Cornwall and Devonshire? A) Dryads B) Gnomes C) Pixies D) Satyrs Previous answer: Corbett National Park is in India. 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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