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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 Monday, June 15Watch Out for Wendigos: Canada's Algonquian people once scared one another with stories of the wendigo. When humans ate human flesh, they would transform into this emaciated zombie-like monster, which would stalk the forests. Oddly, some Algonquians developed what was known as wendigo psychosis, which was a fascination with cannibalism, although this problem seems to have declined along with their traditional lifestyle. Evil Birds: In ancient Rome, a strix was a vampiric crow. The legend survived into the Middle Ages. It appears that the strix was influenced by spooky encounters with owls.
If you're dating a real-life harpy, she's just half-woman. What's the other half? A) A bird B) A lion C) A monkey D) A snake Previous answer: John Larroquette and John Tesh both had small roles as Klingons on various Star Trek franchises. 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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