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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: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012In Roman numerals, an I is a 1, a V is a 5 and an X is a 10. But there is no Roman numeral for 0 because Romans never thought of 0 as a number. Europeans had no 0 at all until the Arabs exported the idea, and they in turn got in from India. As you can imagine, this represented a revolution in mathematics. Interestingly, one other culture had the 0: the Mayans. What TV show used to run ads bragging that it was No. 1 in TV Guide's 2002 list of the worst shows of all time? A) "Cop Rock" B) "Homeboys From Outer Space" C) "The Jerry Springer Show" D) "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer" Previous answer: Abrams and Sherman are both the names of tanks. 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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