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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Charlie Chaplin was a great artist, but he was also consumed by a form of pedophilia called phebophilia, which is an overwhelming attraction for teenage girls. He married and divorced two underage girls. One of them, Lita Grey, he married because …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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