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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 Tuesday, June 16What Goes Around Comes Around (Star Trek Edition): When Nichelle Nichols wanted to quit "Star Trek," Martin Luther King encouraged her to stay on as a role model for young black girls. And indeed, Mae Jemison grew up with Uhura before going into space herself. She returned the favor by appearing as Ensign Palmer in the episode "Second Chances" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." It's Bloomsday: Dedicated James Joyce fans know that this is the date on which the events of "Ulysses" take place. In Dublin today, fans will follow the route the book lays out, as Leopold Bloom goes on his date, locating those landmarks still around.
What name was shared by a member of Archie Bunker's lodge and by a sitcom starring Kevin James? A) The Freemason Conspiracy B) The King of Queens C) The Royal Water Buffalos D) The Scimitar Previous answer: A harpy is half-bird, half-woman. 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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