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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Gary Coleman's death in 2010 was another sad chapter in the history of the ?Diff'rent Strokes? kids. Robbed blind by his parents, he ended up working as a security guard and launched a quixotic run for the California governorship. His co-star, Todd …Read more.
RELEASE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Heath Ledger won an Oscar for playing the Joker, a role that has traditionally offered actors a license to chew scenery like it was bubblegum. Jack Nicholson devoured the screen in the first Batman movie, and Cesar Romero played him on TV, but there …Read more.
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
People are very particular about the people who play Sherlock Holmes, even more so than they are about the various James Bonds. No doubt, for some people, Robert Downey Jr. will be the definitive Holmes, or perhaps even the wonderfully named …Read more.
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Wednesday, November 18Harry Potter's Sorcerer's Stone was called the Philosopher's Stone in the British edition. Historically, alchemists sought to create a philosopher's stone to make their own gold. In 1980, Glenn Seaborg succeeded when centuries of alchemists had failed, when he converted trillionths of a gram of lead into gold, albeit at mind-boggling cost in energy. Knott's Berry Farm is now an amusement park, but it was once, in fact, a berry farm, operated by Walter Knott. He had single-handedly revived a large, reddish-purple berry called the boysenberry, after he and a U.S. Department of Agriculture official found some vines on Rudolph Boysen's abandoned farm. The Knotts started serving chicken to augment berry sales and built attractions to entertain people waiting for their food. What '70s TV icon was Jennifer Aniston's godfather and Nicollette Sheridan's stepfather? A) Alan Alda B) Walter Cronkite C) Redd Foxx D) Telly Savalas Previous answer: The Masters of the Universe were Wall Street brokers. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions.
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