Mine is that International Workers Day is May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, which happened in America where labor day is conspicuously much later in the year.
Don’t know if this qualifies as trivia, but I love that Marx wrote “The Poverty of Philosophy” as a direct “fuck you” to Proudhon’s “The Philosophy of Poverty”. It cracks me up every time I think about it.
TRIZ
TRIZ (/ˈtriːz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch, literally: “theory of the resolution of invention-related tasks”) is “a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature”.[1] It was developed by the Soviet inventor and science-fiction author Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998) and his colleagues, beginning in 1946. In English the name is typically rendered as “the theory of inventive problem solving”,[2][3] and occasionally goes by the English acronym TIPS.
Following Altshuller’s insight, the theory developed on a foundation of extensive research covering hundreds of thousands of inventions across many different fields to produce a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome[4].
A direct kick in the mouth to the mouth-breathers that say “le gommulism cannot innobate”
During the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong stopped eating meat, and grew vegetables and kept rabbits in order to help alleviate the famine’s effects. Not much, but he did his part.
The fact that Lenin thought there would be no socialist revolution in his lifetime, about one year before the Russian revolution happened.
Lenin had a tuxedo cat that looks almost exactly like one of our tuxedo cats.
