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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 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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