As pioneering TV mogul, Lucille Ball spotted potential of “Star Trek,” “The Untouchables,” and “Mission Impossible”
Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West, suffered 3rd-degree burns while making “The Wizard of Oz”
The recording of “Bohemian Rhapsody” took three weeks and featured 180 overdubs of vocals and instruments, including a Chinese gong
A Swiss couple reported missing 75 years ago, parents of 7 children, found in a melting glacier in the Alps
When the Royal Household criticized her Indian servant Abdul Karim, an angry Queen Victoria called it “racial prejudice”
The Olympic Games under Hitler’s Germany, and the question of what might have happened if the world boycotted
Disney initially wanted ABBA to do the soundtrack for “The Lion King,” but they weren’t available so it went to Elton John
The Parthenon of Books, built in Germany, is made of 100,000 banned volumes, from “Tom Sawyer” to “The Satanic Verses”