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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 2Of Art and Monsters: Boris Karloff was not Russian at all. He was actually a London-born Englishman whose career began in Canada. That being said, one of his grandmothers was a Bengali from Calcutta, India. His other grandmother's sister was Anna Leonowens, who was the "I" in "The King and I." Leonowens also spent much of her life in Canada. She co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Legal Downloads: In 2007, after the end of their contract with EMI, Radiohead released its album "In Rainbows" online, allowing fans to pay whatever they thought it was worth. About one-third of people who downloaded decided it wasn't worth paying anything at all for, but the average price paid was 4 pounds.
From Balboa Hill, you can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic (technically, the Caribbean). What country are you in? A) Belize B) Costa Rica C) Mexico D) Panama Previous answer: Earth is found in the arm of Orion. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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