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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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Trivia Bits, February 23Punk Poetry: You know about punk music, but punk poetry? Yup. John Baine (aka Attila the Stockbroker) was the opening act for several punk bands. John Cooper Clarke played himself in “Control,” the movie about Joy Division, in which he reads "Evidently Chickentown." And the Medway Poets went on to form the nucleus of the Stuckists, who, ironically enough, were a conservative counter-reaction to the conceptual art popular in British galleries.
Neil Young: Canadian musician Neil Young really doesn’t care what you think. His critical songs about the U.S. South got him name-checked in “Sweet Home Alabama.” His attack on music commercialism, “This Note’s For You,” was initially banned by MTV, but was later named MTV’s Video of the Year.
Bobby Bare was nominated for a Grammy for what country novelty song? A) "Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goalposts Of Life)" B) "Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissing You Good-bye" C) "She Got The Ring and I Got The Finger" D) "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" Previous answer: Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose." 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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