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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 2Memories of Cake: The madeleine is best known for its guest role in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." A madeleine is a shell-shaped cake that is reputedly named for a 19th-century French cook named Madeleine Paumier. Proust's narrator dunks one in some tea that triggers seven long, long volumes that hardly anyone has enough lifetime left to read. Incidentally, Proust's original title is better translated as "In Search of Lost Time." Strutting Like a Peacock: Recent research suggests that peahens don't in fact pick peacocks based on the beauty and size of their tail feathers. They are turned on more by their vocal calls. The spots on the plumage are "eyes," as the Greeks said that Hera relocated the hundred eyes of Argus onto the bird after Argus died.
On the 1976 album "Hotel California," Joe Walsh was the "new kid in town" who replaced Bernie Leadon in what band? A) Aerosmith B) The Eagles C) Pink Floyd D) Van Halen Previous answer: KFC's slogan was translated into Chinese as "eat your fingers off." 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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