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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 Monday, June 29Elementary: Arthur Conan Doyle may have created Sherlock Holmes, that paragon of dispassionate logic, but he was himself fascinated by the occult and easily fooled. In particular, he was completely fooled by a couple of schoolgirl hoaxers, who faked some amateur photographs using paper cutouts of fairies. These became known as the Cottingley Fairies. But some say he had the last laugh at science's expense: He is a prime suspect in the Piltdown hoax, which set back the paleontological study of early humanity by decades. Tin Cans Are Precious: Aluminum is now considered one of the "poor metals," but it was once considered more precious than gold, so much so that Napoleon III used it to make knives, forks and plates for his honored guests. When the Beatles "saw her standing there," she was just the same age as the man Joan Jett saw "dancin' there by the record machine." What age? A) 15 B) 16 C) 17 D) 18 Previous answer: Don the Beachcomber's stiff drink is called a zombie. 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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