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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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Monday, May 25Towel Day: When Douglas Adams died on May 11, 2001, an Internet forum proposed that, two weeks later, fans celebrate the author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with the first Towel Day. As Adams explains in the first volume of the series, "A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." You mainly celebrate by carrying around a towel all day and explaining, over and over again, why you are doing so. The Anti-Edison: In Greek myth, Daedalus had really bad luck with his inventions. First, he invented the labyrinth as a way to contain the Minotaur. Then the king was so worried about the Minotaur getting loose that he locked up Daedalus and his son, Icarus, so they wouldn't map it for anybody.
On July 9, 1976, what nice great-great-great-great granddaughter of the perfidious George III became an honorary citizen of New York? A) Agatha Christie B) Queen Elizabeth II C) Marianne Faithfull D) Margaret Thatcher Previous answer: "Macbeth" is famous for its witches. 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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