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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 Thursday, June 18And He's Married to a Swede: Tiger Woods is arguably the first post-racial celebrity. He is a quarter Chinese, a quarter Thai, a quarter African-American, an eighth Native American and an eighth Dutch. Complicating things, his African American father is a quarter Chinese and his Thai mother is also a quarter Chinese. Woods himself prefers to be known not as Asian or black but as a Cablinasian. Or better still, as Tiger. Interplanetary Chaos: When Mike Brown's team at Palomar found UB313, out past Neptune, they probably had no idea they were about to overturn decades of schoolbook wisdom. They initially nicknamed the prospective planet Xena, not for a Greco-Roman god, but for a TV hero. In what book would you find the Rodent of Unusual Size? A) "Alice in Wonderland" B) "The Chronicles of Narnia" series C) "The Princess Bride" D) "Winnie the Pooh" Previous answer: The show-within-a-show on "Home Improvement" was "Tool Time." 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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