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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: THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2012The HMS Queen Mary is said to be one of the most haunted ships in the world. In 1966, a watertight door crushed fireman John Pedder during a drill, and he has supposedly been seen every now and again ever since. Ghosts have also been reported on the promenade and in the first-class swimming pool. The ship was even used as a set for an "X-Files" episode. Nowadays, the former ocean liner is permanently moored in Long Beach, Calif. Who would most likely encounter heffalumps and woozles? A) Bilbo Baggins B) Harry Potter D) Winnie the Pooh E) Peter Pan Previous answer: Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce. 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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