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TRIVIA TODAY - Thursday, April 3, 2008
"Six Items a Day of Enduring Insignificance"
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Greetings Infomaniacs,
On this day in 1882 American outlaw Jesse James is shot in
the back and killed in Saint Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford
for a $5,000 reward.
In 1942 Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the
United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
In 1948 President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan which
authorized $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
In 1973 the first portable cell phone call was placed in New
York City.
And in 2000 Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States
antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its compet-
itors.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "I wonder what fool it was that first invented
kissing."
HINT: Was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works
like Gulliver's Travels.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The pleasant feeling of eating chocolate is caused by a
chemical called anadamide, a neurotransmitter which also
is produced naturally in the brain.
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The first city in the world to have a population of more
than one million was London, which today is the 13th most
populated city, with about 8 million residents.
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MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
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Keepsakes
High school graduation is the No. 1 reason for purchasing
graduation cards, and the average graduate receives 17.5
graduation cards. Sixty percent of all graduation cards
are purchased for high-school graduates. College graduation
is the No. 2 reason for buying graduation cards, and the
average college graduate receives 7.5 cards.
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She-Heo-Seo
Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the
English language. The singular female reference was the
word "heo", which also was the plural of all genders. The
word "she" appeared only in the 12th century, about 400
years after English began to take form. "She" probably
derived from the Old English feminine "seo", the Viking
word for feminine reference.
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The Original
When Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the
Louvre in 1912, 6 replicas were sold as the original,
each at a huge price, in the 3 years before the original
was recovered.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
A potato's key tool, I have all the power.
I am generally used on the half or full hour.
If my cells were deceased or lost or the such,
My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
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QUOTE: "I wonder what fool it was that first invented
kissing."
ANSWER: Jonathon Swift
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