Trivia Today - Monday, February 3, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today's fun facts are about the toys I played with as a
kid. I can't tell you how many times I watched a Slinky
bend and flip down a flight of stairs, dressed up Barbie
dolls and played pretend with my cousins, or built
amazing structures out of Legos just to tear them apart
again. Some days I wish I could just return to when life
was that simple!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

HINT: (1805-1875), Danish author and poet, best remembered for his fairy tales.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Barbie (the doll) has a last name: Roberts. Ken's last name is Carson.

If you lined up all the Slinkys ever made, they could wrap around the world 126 times.

Play-doh was used as a wallpaper cleaner before it became a toy.

Lego has manufactured more than 189 billion pieces in 2,000 different shapes since 1949, about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on earth.

Chance of meeting someone with Barbie's human-scale measurements (36-18-33): one in 100,000. Chance of meeting someone with Ken's one in 50.

Easy-Bake Ovens have been sold since 1964.


*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Two bodies have I, though both joined in one, the more I
stand still the faster I run.

What am I?

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

ANSWER: Hans Christian Anderson.

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