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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 27Brazilian Potpourri: Today is Mixed Race Day in Brazil, in honor of the day in 2004 when 27 mestico ("mixed race") representatives were elected to a conference on racial equality. Brazil has always been much more casual about what was once known as "miscegenation," and today about 40 percent of Brazilians are multiracial, typically some mixture of Indian, white and black. Bad Speeches Can Kill: William Henry Harrison's inauguration speech was a record 8,445 words, or a little more than 263 words per day he spent in office. That's because he also holds the record for having the shortest term; he lasted just 31 days in the White House.
Invented at Hollywood's Don the Beachcomber restaurant, what cocktail of fruit juices, liqueurs and various rums is so strong it might well bring the dead back to life? A) Golem B) Vampire C) Werewolf D) Zombie Previous answer: Jack and Jill fell down a hill at Kilmersdon. 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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