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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
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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: THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012In addition to being kings of the B movies, Russ Meyer and Roger Corman nearly had weird hits later in life. Meyer directed "Who Kill Bambi?" The movie would've been notable because, first, film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay and second, it would've starred the Sex Pistols. Naturally, only a day and a half was filmed, although they did shoot a scene with Sting playing a young thug. As for Corman, he made a terrible version of "The Fantastic Four," apparently unaware that the whole thing was a legal ploy and there were never any plans to release the low-budget fiasco. Who asked the damned dirty ape to get his stinkin' paws off of him? A) Clint Eastwood B) Charlton Heston C) Steve McQueen D) Paul Newman Previous answer: Muhammad Ali was the black Superman. 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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