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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 5Tiananmen Square: Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which several thousand people were murdered as the Chinese military cleared pro-democracy protesters from a square whose name means Gate of Heavenly Peace. The most famous protester is unknown: Tank Man stood in front of a row of tanks and for a moment blocked them from entering the square, until he was removed by government agents. Antichrist Trivia: Tomorrow is June 6, or 6/6. Three years ago, in 2006, June 6 would have been 6-6-06, or 666, the number of the beast. Naturally, that was the date that the new version of the movie "The Omen" was released, since it is about the Antichrist as a child.
What is the largest national park in the lower 48? A) Badlands National Park B) Death Valley National Park C) Yellowstone National Park D) Yosemite National Park Previous answer: A brownie is a lot of things, but it is not a hockey penalty. 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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