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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 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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