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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 Wednesday, June 24900 Seconds of Posthumous Fame: In a 15-minute ceremony in 1998, Andy Warhol's Manhattan townhouse was designated as a cultural landmark by the Historic Landmark Preservation Center. Built in 1910, the five-story brick townhouse is on East 66th Street. Warhol owned it from 1974 until his death in 1987. He paid for it in cash. By the way, the ceremony was exactly 15 minutes long. Exactly. Get it? The "Real" Evangeline: When Longfellow wrote his poem about a couple in love, separated when the British ordered them out of Canada and deported them to Louisiana, he captured the American imagination. The local boosters in St.
What was Don Vito Corleone's relationship to Johnny Fontane? A) He was Fontane's godfather B) He was Fontane's real dad C) He was Fontane's uncle D) He was Fontane's gay lover Previous answer: The Holy See is the Vatican. 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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