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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 Tuesday, June 2Memories of Cake: The madeleine is best known for its guest role in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." A madeleine is a shell-shaped cake that is reputedly named for a 19th-century French cook named Madeleine Paumier. Proust's narrator dunks one in some tea that triggers seven long, long volumes that hardly anyone has enough lifetime left to read. Incidentally, Proust's original title is better translated as "In Search of Lost Time." Strutting Like a Peacock: Recent research suggests that peahens don't in fact pick peacocks based on the beauty and size of their tail feathers. They are turned on more by their vocal calls. The spots on the plumage are "eyes," as the Greeks said that Hera relocated the hundred eyes of Argus onto the bird after Argus died.
On the 1976 album "Hotel California," Joe Walsh was the "new kid in town" who replaced Bernie Leadon in what band? A) Aerosmith B) The Eagles C) Pink Floyd D) Van Halen Previous answer: KFC's slogan was translated into Chinese as "eat your fingers off." 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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