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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, May 1Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Colwyn Bay, Wales (current population about 10,000). Former James Bond portrayer Timothy Dalton was born there in 1946, and Monty Python member Terry Jones was born in the neighboring Old Colwyn (current population about 8,000) in 1942.
Hello/goodbye update: Thanks to Billie Shaffer of Clarendon, Texas, who let us know about the Navajo word "yatahey," which can mean "hello" or "goodbye." Don Hansen of Issaquah, Wash., told us about the Danish oddity of "hej" (pronounced "hi") meaning "hello" and "hej-hej" meaning "goodbye." A recent Bit mentioned that a resident of Sydney, Australia, is called a Sydneysider.
A) Left-hander B) Comedian C) Clumsy sailor D) Rickety building Previous answer: The "ruth" in "ruthless" is a word meaning "pity." 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762.
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