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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 Saturday, June 20Bad Water: Ever wonder if that fancy bottled water people drink is actually just tap water? Coca-Cola was caught using regular municipal water, just like the kind that comes out of your taps, in its Dasani brand. The water is filtered afterward, though, with some trace minerals added. Incidentally, even if bottled water were better for you than tap water, there is also the fact that it is bottled in plastic, which doesn't decompose well. In Like Flynn: Today would be Errol Flynn's 100th birthday, had his heart not exploded in Vancouver in 1959, after an international weeklong drinking binge. Flynn was famous for his hard-partying ways, and his amorous adventures became front-page news after he was falsely accused of rape.
If you aren't careful, an apelike "Bigfoot" called the Yowie might throw you on the barbie, mate. Where? A) Australia B) Canada C) The Carolinas D) Wales Previous answer: The Chevrolet with the Zulu name was the Impala. 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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