TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, June 20, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Happy Monday! Hope all you dads out there had a very happy Father's Day. I enjoyed spending some time with my dad yesterday. I'll keep things short so you can get right to the trivia...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death."

HINT: (1452-1519), Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

RANDOM TIDBITS
After his death, Alexander the Great's remains were preserved in a huge crock of honey. Among the ancient Egyptians, it was common practice to bury the dead in this manner.

Undertakers have reported that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as in previous times. They believe this is because the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposing too rapidly after death.

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense is usually sight. Then follow taste, smell, and touch.

In ancient Egypt, when merchants left the country on business trips they carried small stone models of themselves. If they died while abroad, these figures were sent back to Egypt for proxy burial.

When a crusader died, his corpse was chopped up and the flesh boiled away. This was done so that the skeleton could be conveniently returned for a Christian burial.

Obsidian balls, or occasionally brass balls, were placed in the eye sockets of Egyptian mummies. The bandaging of a mummy often took from six to eight months and required a collection of special tools.

VIDEO CLIP
Wall of Death - Crazy Car Stunt
Listen folks... don't try this at home. Here's an accident waiting to happen. Watch this clip as two motorcycles go around in a tube like riding on a sideways race track. Then to make matters worse two cars join in.

Watch It Now: Wall of Death - Crazy Car Stunt

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death."

ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci.

*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I constantly collide into all the others,
The only one of 16 without colors.
Associated with English and banking and breaking,
The answer is right there for the taking.

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