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Saturday, May 26
Fritz Haber became the "father of chemical warfare" after he developed chlorine gas for the German army during World War I. It was considered a major step forward in military brutality. He also worked on an insecticide called Zyklon B. And …Read more.
Friday, May 25
Many video games have cheat codes. The most famous is the Konami Code, which developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto created because he thought Gradius was impossible to play otherwise. There are variations, but it typically goes like this: up, up, down, down, …Read more.
Thursday, May 24
During WWI, British munitions minister David Lloyd George met Chaim Weizmann in Manchester. Weizmann was working on synthetic rubber, and a byproduct of that process was acetone. The British military needed acetone because its supply from Europe was …Read more.
Wednesday, May 23
You'd think young men have been giving their fiancÇes diamond rings for centuries. Perhaps, but it only became an Ironclad social rule after De Beers hired the ad agency NW Ayer & Son in 1939. They developed the slogan
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FOR RELEASE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2012There are a lot of ways Barack Obama is unusual among presidents. As far as we know, he's the only one who collected Spider-Man and Conan comics as a kid. In fact, in a recent issue, Spider-Man saves Obama's inaugural. Obama has a Grammy for one of his audio books, and he's the first president to have a laptop on his Oval Office desk. (It's a Mac.) And we're fairly sure he's the only president who ever had a pet ape called Tata when he was growing up in Indonesia. What celebrity appeared on the cover of "The Amazing Spider-Man" #573, which parodies the cover of the very first Spidey comic? A) Stephen Colbert B) Tobey Maguire C) Kevin Smith D) Barack Obama Previous answer: Robert Ludlum is still cranking 'em out from beyond the grave. 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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