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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 30Classical Punk: In the 1980s, Elvis Costello became interested in classical music. He had written a ballet score and worked with the Brodsky Quartet and Anne Sofie von Otter when he was approached by the Danes to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen. The result was the "The Secret Arias," an opera based on Andersen's unrequited yearning for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. It debuted in Copenhagen in 2005. Things One and Two: You know Theodor Seuss Geisel as Dr. Seuss, and in 1957, he was challenged to help kids learn to read by writing a book using just 400 words.
Strictly speaking, what was the Ugly Duckling? A) An ugly chick B) An ugly cygnet C) An ugly drake D) An ugly gosling Previous answer: The age that appears in songs by the Beatles and Joan Jett is 17. 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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