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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 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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