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TRIVIA TODAY - Thursday, April 24, 2008
"Six Items a Day of Enduring Insignificance"
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Greetings Infomaniacs,
Let's take a quick trip up north today for a trivial tour of
Minnesota. You have to appreciate a state that has its own
state mushroom: the Morel mushroom.
Enjoy!
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Energy and persistence alter all things."
HINT: He invented the notion of colonial unity; he invented
the idea of America; historians hail him as the "First
American".
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Minneapolis is known as the City of Lakes and the Mill City.
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The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 foot-
ball fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
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The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow
transplant in the United States were done at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
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The Minnesota State Motto is L'Etoile du Nord, which means
The North Star.
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Akeley is birthplace and home of world's largest Paul
Bunyan Statue. The kneeling Paul Bunyan is 20 feet tall.
He might be the claimed 33 feet tall, if he were standing.
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Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the
Milky Way candy bar in 1923. Mars marketed the Snickers
bar in 1930 and introduced the 5 cent Three Musketeers
bar in 1937. The original 3 Musketeers bar contained 3
bars in one wrapper. Each with different flavor nougat.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
First, think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
the middle of middle, and end of end?
Finally, give me the sound often heard
during the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
What creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
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QUOTE: "Energy and persistence alter all things."
ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin
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