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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 22State No. 51: The United States nearly had a 51st state that would have been dominated by Indians, particularly those Indians who had been forced out of their home territories and relocated to eastern Oklahoma. This is where the proposed state of Sequoyah would have been. It would have been named for Sequoyah, who developed the Cherokee alphabet (technically, it's a syllabary). Three genera of redwoods are also named for him. Tax the Poor, Free the Rich: If you know your Robin Hood, you know that John is only running the show because Richard the Lionheart is off on Crusade. What you may not know is that his return home was delayed because he was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1193, in a castle above Durnstein, Austria.
What capital of Tyrol has hosted the Winter Olympics twice? A) Albertville B) Innsbruck C) St. Moritz D) Turin Previous answer: There is an "A" on a piano keyboard and in the word "piano." 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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