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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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Saturday, May 16Like Lemmings: The lemming gets its name from the Norwegian word for "destroying," because of its voracious migrations. But the one thing you think you know about lemmings is not true. Overpopulation does not cause them to fling themselves, en masse, from cliffs. The myth of suicidal lemmings owes a lot to a 1958 Disney documentary "White Wilderness," in which a lemming migration (and mass suicide) was faked in Alberta, which is distinctly non-lemming territory. Bigger Than You Think: Now the seat of Santa Clara County, the "capital of Silicon Valley" was also the first capital of California. We're talking about San Jose, of course. It's now the third-largest city in California and the 10th largest in the United States, thanks to explosive suburban and exurban growth around San Francisco starting in the 1960s.
Catherine Bell from "JAG," Adrian Pasdar from "Heroes" and Sarah Shahi from "The L Word" are all of what nationality, but only on one side of their families? A) Brazilian B) Persian C) Romanian D) Thai Previous answer: The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War, which began in 1618. 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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