TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 1, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Welcome to the month of August! Does anyone have any big plans for this month? I don't have too much going on, but I will be done with my summer grad school class next week, and then I'll be free from homework and studying until the new semester begins on August 29th. I am hoping to take a few more vacation days with my teacher friends before they go back to school so we can soak up as much summer as possible!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

HINT: (1869-1948), Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest.

RANDOM TIDBITS
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

The world's first artificial heart was made of Dacron. It was implanted into a patient by Dr. Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas, on April 4, 1969. Four days later it was rejected by the patient's body and the patient died.

The insulin used to treat diabetes in human beings is taken from pigs and sheep. The substance produced in these animals is exactly the same as that found in the human body and has precisely the same sugar-stabilizing effect.

The Rx sign used today on pharmaceutical prescriptions was originally an astrological sign for the planet Jupiter. The use of the sign originated in the Middle Ages, when doctors believed that the planets influenced health. Jupiter was thought to be the most powerful of all the heavenly bodies in curing disease.

The theory of immunization, and of smallpox immunization in particular, was known to Chinese doctors more than seven hundred years before its discovery in 1796 by the English physician Edward Jenner. To immunize a child against smallpox, a doctor took a pustule from a smallpox patient, pulverized it, and blew the powder into the child's nose through a specially molded tube.

Runners in Greece believed that the spleen was a hindrance to endurance and long-distance running. Consequently they had a vast pharmacopoeia of herbal concoctions especially designed to shrink this organ. One popular method was to drink a beverage made from a plant of the genus Equisetum. The drink was mixed with a variety of herbs and taken for three days before a race.

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

ANSWER: Mahatma Ghandi.

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