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TRIVIA TODAY - Thursday, April 17, 2008
"Six Items a Day of Enduring Insignificance"
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Greetings Infomaniacs,
The world's oldest living tree on record is a nearly 10,000
year-old spruce that has been discovered in central Sweden.
Researchers had discovered a spruce with genetic material
dating back 9,550 years in the Fulu mountain in Dalarna,
according to Leif Kullmann, a professor of Physical Geography
at the university in northwestern Sweden.
That would mean it had taken root in roughly the year 7,542 BC.
Scientists had previously believed the world's oldest trees
were 4,000-5,000 year-old pine trees found in North America.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear.
You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that.
You lose the taste."
HINT: (1899 – 1961) was an American novelist and short
story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of
experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and
World War II
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Wild Bill Hickok was killed playing poker, holding two
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Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the
photoelectric effect.
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Evolution of Facial Muscles
The facial muscles have a distinctive evolutionary path.
Most of the muscles of expression in the human face or-
iginate from the platysma muscle of ancestral animals.
No other animals have evolved as complex a set of facial
muscles as have humans.
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Fingers have no muscles
The muscles which bend the finger joints are located in
the palm and up in the mid forearm, and are connected to
the finger bones by tendons, which pull on and move the
fingers like the strings of a marionette.
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Involuntary
Much of muscle contraction occurs without conscious
thought and is necessary for survival, like the contrac-
tion of the heart or peristalsis, which pushes food
through the digestive system.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
My first three letters are a term in golf,
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.
What am I?
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QUOTE: "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear.
You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that.
You lose the taste."
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway
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