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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
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.
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Trivia Bits, November 20Eponym of the week: Ohio-born Charles F. Richter. Receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1928, he immediately went to work at Pasadena's new Seismology Laboratory, where, with co-worker Beno Gutenberg, he developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake intensity in 1935. Richter was a lifelong skeptic about scientists' ability to predict earthquakes.
The venerable whodunit board game Clue underwent a major redesign earlier this year. The six suspects now have first names and occupations (such as actress Kasandra Scarlet) and three of the weapons (lead pipe, revolver and wrench) have been replaced with new ones (dumbbell, trophy and poison).
Who played the title role in the 1950 biopic "The Jackie Robinson Story"? A) Ossie Davis B) Bill Cosby Sr. C) Sidney Poitier D) Jackie Robinson Previous answer: The radioactive decay of uranium-238 ultimately results in its transformation to the atomically stable lead-206. 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. COPYRIGHT 2008 STANLEY NEWMAN DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE
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