TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I am very excited to be off work until next Wednesday. Tonight is my Christmas party with my closest friends. We decided to wait until after Christmas because everyone is so busy before and it was nice to have something to look forward to after all the excitement. But first, it's off to the gym in an attempt to burn off some of those cookie calories!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

HINT: An immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The first golf car was invented in the late 1940s strictly for people with disabilities.

The first vending machines in the United States were installed on New York City train platforms in 1888 and dispensed Chewing gum.

Buddy was the name of the FIRST SEEING EYE DOG in America, brought to the U.S. in 1928 from Switzerland by owner Morris Frank.

Cartoon character "Pebbles" Flintstone was born on February 22, 1963. To help celebrate the event, the Mattel toy company manufactured over 250,000 "Pebbles" dolls, which were among the company's hottest-selling toys that year.

To insure a worldwide audience, Alfred Hitchcock filmed his opening and closing remarks in English, French and German. He also drew the famous profile of himself that he steps into before each episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.

In 1964, HASBRO introduced an 11 1/2-inch doll called G.I. JOE, with 21 movable parts to "move G.I.JOE into action positions" First-year sales for the doll and his equipment reached $10 million.


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

ANSWER: Plato

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