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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 23Montreal Hockey: The Montreal Canadiens are the only current team to win a Stanley Cup before joining the NHL. They are heroes for the cities French-speaking population. There used to be a team for the city's Anglophones. They were called the Montreal Wanderers. They folded after their arena burned down and were replaced by the Montreal Maroons, the last Stanley Cup winning team to fold, doing so when a plan to move them to Philadelphia came to naught in 1947. Hooray for Fort Lee, N.J.: When Hollywood was just a citrus grove, the movie industry was being born in New Jersey, where people flocked to use Thomas Edison's new invention.
If you can wholly see the Holy See from your hotel, what can you see? A) Forbidden City B) Hagia Sophia C) Jerusalem Old City D) Vatican City Previous answer: Wayne Gretzky scored 894 goals. 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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