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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 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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