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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
"A Diamond is …Read more.
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Friday, May 1Women You Want On Your Trivia Team: Geena Davis is no dummy. She is a Mensa member. In fact, while an exchange student in Sandviken, she learned fluent Swedish. Her other unusual claim to fame is that she not only took up archery, but came close to qualifying for the American Olympic team. Mind you, she can't be all that smart. She did appear in "Cutthroat Island." Women in Office: Long before Hillary, Victoria Woodhull was the first American woman to run for president, back in 1872. And her VP was a black man: Frederick Douglass. Nobody was sure how many votes they got, but Ulysses Grant got 3,598,235.
In the galaxy, the Earth is found in the spiral arm of what mighty hunter constellation? A) Hercules B) Orion C) Perseus D) Sagittarius Previous answer: The only country named for Jesus is El Salvador ("The Savior") in Latin America. 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.
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