Friday, September 8, 2017
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to Kerry Halee who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
ANSWER: The letter m.
Enjoy!
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."
HINT: (1884-1968), was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Splenda was an insecticide that became a sweetener when an assistant misheard an order to "test" it as "taste" it.
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A stick of chewing gum costs five cents to buy but 17 cents to clean off the pavement.
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Second Street is the most common street name in the USA. First Street is the third most common.
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The Green Zone Golf Club is on the border of Finland and Sweden: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.
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Bruce Lee was Hong Kong's 1958 cha-cha dance champion.
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The nectar of citrus plants contains caffeine to attract bees.
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."
ANSWER: Norman Thomas.