TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, January 30, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

What has a foot but no leg?

ANSWER: A ruler.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure."

HINT: (1917-1986), was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Cheddar, England, a village in the southwestern county of Somerset, is home to the famous geological site Cheddar Gorge. Beginning in the 16th century, visitors to Cheddar Gorge tasted cheese at local inns and started taking home "cheese from cheddar."

Cheddar is so important to the English palate that during World War II, it was illegal to commercially produce any other variety of cheese in England.

Cheddar cheese is naturally white or pale yellow. These days, much of it is dyed orange with seeds from the annatto plant, and early cheese makers used carrot juice and marigold petals.

"American" cheese is a young, pasteurized cheddar that undergoes additional processing to become the easy-to-melt variety.

According to historians, President Andrew Jackson once served a 1,400-pound block of cheddar at a White House party.

"Squeaky curds" refers to fresh young cheddar in its natural shape, before it's pressed into a block and aged. Fresh curds are considered a delicacy - and they actually make a squeaking sound when you eat them.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure."

ANSWER: Sydney J. Harris.

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