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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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Tuesday, May 12Alpine Puppies: Popular lore notwithstanding, the St. Bernard never actually carried casks of brandy from its collar. That's a good thing, since the last thing you should give somebody with hypothermia is alcohol. The dog was likely named after the Great St. Bernard Pass in Switzerland, where monks bred them at a hospice. Ironically, the breed was nearly wiped out by a series of avalanches in the 1810s. Epic Comedy: Stanley Kramer intended for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to be to an epic, as well as a comedy. To that end, the film was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama. It also included some of the Golden Age's greatest comedians: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters and cameos from the Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny and Buster Keaton. If you are a pariah aboard a catamaran, you may know that "catamaran" and "pariah" come to English from what language? A) Arabic B) Dutch C) Sioux D) Tamil Previous answer: Jalapeno is both a pepper and a Mexican city. 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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