Trivia Today - Monday, June 9, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I did not realize that this past Friday was National Donut Day! Apparently, the first Friday in June is a national celebration of the doughy treat. Who would have thought?! I guess that means I should have two donuts today, you know, to make up for missing out on Friday...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Between an optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole!"

HINT: (1854-1900), Irish writer and poet.


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"National Doughnut Day" (the original spelling) began on the first Friday in June in 1938 as a fundraiser for the Salvation Army, and it still is today. National Donut Day as it is now known commemorates Salvation Army female volunteers known as "donut lassies," who provided writing supplies, stamps, clothes-mending and home-cooked meals, and of course, donuts, for soldiers on the front lines of World War I.

Those lassies had limited resources, so they could fry only seven at a time until the Salvation Army's Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance cleverly thought of frying donuts in soldiers' helmets.

American prisoners of war at Son Tay prison camp tricked their North Vietnamese captors into giving out donuts by telling them that the birthday of the United States Marine Corps was once referred to as National Donut Day.

In the early '50s, Frank Sinatra used to call the Bay Shore bakery to place weekly orders from Entenmann's.

The largest donut ever made was a 1.7 ton American-style jelly donut measuring 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center.

Doughnut vs. donut: The now-accepted spelling of "donut" did not overtake the more traditional "doughnut" until Dunkin Donuts stores dotted the nation a few decades ago, according to Grammarist.com. One-third of Americans use "donut," with most preferring "doughnut."


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Between an optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole!"

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde.

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