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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 Thursday, June 11Hard-to-Spell Hawaiian Icons: Today is Kamehameha Day in Hawaii. It honors the Napoleon of the Pacific, Kamehameha the Great, who established the unified Kingdom of Hawaii in the 1790s, mostly by conquering the other islands with a little British help. (That's why the Union Jack is on the Hawaiian flag.) The day is celebrated with hula contests, a floral parade that starts at Iolani Palace, and the draping of Kamehameha's statue with lei. Crapo's Chevrolets: William C. Durant is said to have developed the Chevrolet's bow-tie logo by copying it from the wallpaper in a Paris Hotel. The C., by the way, was short for Crapo. The unfortunate name was actually his grandfather's surname.
Bengal tigers are protected in Corbett National Park, ironically named for a tiger hunter, which is the oldest national park in what country? A) Australia B) Brazil C) India D) Kenya Previous answer: Colombia is named for Christopher Columbus from Genoa. 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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