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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: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012Sylvia Plath won a competition to edit a fashion magazine, only to spiral into suicidal depression. And as it happens, that's exactly the fate suffered by Esther Greenwood, Plath's character in her book "The Bell Jar." In Plath's case, the magazine was Mademoiselle. She tried electroconvulsive therapy to literally jolt her out of her depression, but she tried to kill herself with pills anyway. Later, she succeeded in killing herself by shoving her head in a gas oven, although some think it was actually a cry for help and that dying was an accident. Whose comic strip character had a daughter named Bonnie Braids? A) Li'l Abner B) Daddy Warbucks C) Dick Tracy D) Mary Worth Previous answer: Hitler had Albert Speer draw up plans for rebuilding Berlin as the capitol of the world. 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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