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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 9Single Ladies (Sleep Naked on It): Curious what your future husband will look like? No problem. In "The Eve of St. Agnes," John Keats lays out what you need to do, in full poetic detail. On Jan. 20, the night before Agnes' feast day, skip supper, and sleep in the nude with your hands under your pillow, looking upward. Your one true love will appear and kiss you. Keats originally went all out on the obvious eroticism here, but his publisher got him to tone it down. Crocodile Dentistry: The Egyptian plover has to be the world's bravest bird. When it sees a crocodile sloppily eating its food, it hops into the reptile's mouth and picks bits of food out from its teeth.
What is the westernmost national capital in the Western Hemisphere? A) Bogota B) Mexico City C) Ottawa D) Washington Previous answer: Rodin was the thinker who got the kiss off from Paris' School of Fine Arts. 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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