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TRIVIA TODAY - Thursday, April 10, 2008
"Six Items a Day of Enduring Insignificance"
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Greetings Infomaniacs,
On this day in 1865, a day after his surrender to Union
forces during the American Civil War, Confederate General
Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
In 1912 The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England
for her first and last voyage.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is created on this day in
1933.
In 1944 Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of
Ford Motor Company.
And in 1970 Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have
broken up.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "In a completely sane world, madness is the only
freedom!"
HINT: Is a British writer. He was a prominent member of
the New Wave in science fiction. His most well-known books
are the controversial Crash, and the autobiographical
novel Empire of the Sun, both of which have been filmed.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Wintergreen LifeSavers give off sparks when chewed in the
dark because of a chemical process called triboluminescence.
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Robert O. Welch, the inventor of Sugar Daddy, is also the
founder of the John Birch Society.
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The dog on the Cracker Jack package is named Bingo.
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For many years, the globe on the NBC Nightly News spun in
the wrong direction. On January 2, 1984, NBC finally set
the world back in the proper direction.
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On the night of October 31, 1938, Orson Welles and his
Mercury Theatre troupe provided "the panic broadcast that
shook the world," when they performed 'The War of the
Worlds' by H.G. Wells as a terrifying real-life episode.
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Mary Tyler Moore had an early acting role playing a
woman at an answering service. You could only see her
legs and hear her voice.
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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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QUOTE: "In a completely sane world, madness is the only
freedom!"
ANSWER: J.G. Ballard
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