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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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Tuesday, May 19Latin Libraries: Yes, it is true. The Vatican Library, developed by Pope Nicholas V in 1451, does have an enormous collection of incunabula. We refer, of course, to documents produced before 1501. You may have thought we meant dirty books. The Vatican has those, too, but it doesn't have the world's largest such collection. That appears to belong to the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind. Egyptian Libraries: Alexandria's fabled library is mostly fabled for being burned to the ground, over and over, by the Romans, Christians and Muslims. Nobody knows how many volumes it had, but some estimates run as high as a million scrolls. In 2003, the library was finally rebuilt and reopened.
What 1990s megahit includes a sample from "The Graduate" of Anne Bancroft saying, "I'm not trying to seduce you"? A) "Macarena" by Los Del Rio B) "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer C) "Vogue" by Madonna D) "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette Previous answer: The Gremlin automobile came with blue jean covers. 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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