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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 Friday, July 3Keep Quiet: To hide his Jewish origins, Marcel Mangel changed his name to that of a French Revolution general, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers. He became Marcel Marceau, the French mime who came to define the art form. His father, a kosher butcher, died in Auschwitz in 1944 and the young Marceau worked for the Resistance as a liaison officer with Patton's army. Farrah: We're writing this late in May and sadly, by the time you read this in July, Farrah Fawcett may have died. She became a staple of teenage boys' bedrooms in the '70s, thanks to an iconic poster of her in a red bathing suit.
What character's size 6B ruby slippers sold for $165,000 at auction in June 1988? A) Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" B) Jane from "Tarzan" C) Rambo from "First Blood" D) Wendy from "Peter Pan" Previous answer: Hansel and Gretal were abandoned by their parents. 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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