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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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Wednesday, May 13Men (and Women) of the Year: Time's Person of the Year always warrants some news coverage every December. Before 1999, it was called the Man of the Year, although four women won it: Wallis Simpson, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Queen Elizabeth and Corazon Aquino. (No individual woman has been named Person of the Year, ironically.) FDR nabbed the honor a record three times, and every president save for Coolidge, Hoover and Ford managed to land the plaudit at least once. In 1999, Einstein was named Person of the Century. Jinxing the Cover: Eddie Matthews was on the first cover of Sports Illustrated and went on to a stellar career.
About a third of the world's Arabs live in what country? A) Egypt B) Iraq C) Iran D) Pakistan Previous answer: Tamil gave us "catamaran" and "pariah." 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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