TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, December 12, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to "Betty Barkley" who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:

What do the dead eat, that the living would die if they ate it?

ANSWER: Nothing.

Enjoy!
Melissa

Questions? Comments? Email Melissa


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

HINT: (1853-1890), was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin.


RANDOM TIDBITS
France was the first country to cultivate mushrooms, in the mid-17th century. From there, the practice spread to England and made its way to the United States in the 19th century.

Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms were the plant of immortality. Pharaohs decreed them a royal food and forbade commoners to even touch them.

Most edible mushrooms have poisonous look-alikes in the wild. For example, the dangerous "yellow stainer" closely resembles the popular white agaricus mushroom.

In the wild, mushroom spores are spread by wind. On mushroom farms, spores are collected in a laboratory and then used to inoculate grains to create "spawn," a mushroom farmer's equivalent of seeds.

Mushroom spores are so tiny that 2,500 arranged end-to-end would measure only an inch in length.

The process of cultivating mushrooms - from preparing the compost in which they grow to shipping the crop to markets - takes about four months.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

ANSWER: Vincent van Gogh.

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