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TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, April 9, 2008
"Six Items a Day of Enduring Insignificance"
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Greetings Infomaniacs,
A number of readers wrote in to point out that the trivia
about there being 80,000 miles of wire and 600,000 rivets
in the 746 foot towers was incomplete. What did all that
wire and all those rivets belong to?
The answer is San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden
Gate was the longest span in the world from its completion
in 1937 until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built in New
York in 1964. Today, it still has the seventh-longest main
span in the world.
Enjoy!
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to
account for the curious attraction of others."
HINT:(1854–1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist,
poet, short story writer and Freemason.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Lebanon is the only country in the Middle East that does
not have a desert.
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The actor who portrayed the "Marlboro Man" for the world's
best-selling cigarette died of lung cancer.
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The ridges on the U.S. dollar, half dollar, quarter and
dime is called 'reeding.'
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"Header" is an expression that arose in the 1800s when
riders of high-wheel bicycles frequently sustained head
injuries. The rider was perched nearly 6 feet about the
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By 1973, Thomas Jefferson, an inventor, and his cabinet
were so overwhelmed with patent applications that the
duty was handed off to a state department clerk. In 1802,
the U.S. Patent Office was finally established.
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John Alden is noted for the fact that he was a cooper by
trade and was asked to join the Mayflower company for
the extremely important task of caring for the Pilgrims'
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
It does not walk, run or trot,
All is cool where it is not.
What is it?
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Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!
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QUOTE: "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to
account for the curious attraction of others."
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde
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