TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Have any of you seen that GEICO Hump Day commercial with the camel walking around an office repeatedly asking "Guess what day it is?" Well, if you haven't seen it, I'm going to ruin it for you by telling you the correct answer to that question is "Hump Day".

I thought the commercial was funny for awhile, but now it's starting to wear on my nerves a tad. In any case, it inspired me to look up some interesting facts about camels, and I hope they make you feel happier than a camel on hump day!

Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

HINT: (1898-1963), novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist.

RANDOM TIDBITS
When a camel uses the fat stored in its humps for energy, the humps start to get smaller and deflate. The humps grow again when the camel rehydrates.

Camels make the most of a meal. They can rehydrate faster than any other mammal, able to drink about 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes.

Camels can run up to 40 mph for a short period of time. They can maintain 25 mph for longer making them about as fast as a horse.

Camels are known for spitting on people. In fact, the animals are throwing up the contents of their stomach along with spit. This is a defense tactic when the animals feel threatened.

The large beasts make a variety of moans, groans and deep, throaty bellows. One of the camel's noises was even used to voice the character Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies.

Camels have very thick lips allowing them to eat even very salty, bitter or thorny plants. If hungry, camels can even eat leather shoes.

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A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

ANSWER: C.S. Lewis.

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