TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, March 25, 2016

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

Name a 7 letter word, from which if you take out 4 letters, you will have 1 left?

ANSWER: Someone.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

HINT: (1954-), American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

RANDOM TIDBITS
It used to take 27 hours to make a Peep. That was in 1953, when Sam Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its line of marshmallow chicks. Back then, each chick was handmade with a pastry tube. Just Born quickly set about automating the process, so that it now takes just six minutes to make a Peep.

Yellow chicks are the original Peep, and still the favorite. Yellow bunnies are the second most popular color/shape combination. Pink is the second best-selling color.

The Peep recipe begins with a boiling batch of granulated sugar, liquid sugar, and corn syrup, to which gelatin and vanilla extract are later added.

Since Just Born turned Peeps-making into an automated process, the chicks have been carefully formed by a top-secret machine known as The Depositor. Created by Sam Born's son, Bob, The Depositor could manufacture six rows of five Peeps apiece in a fraction of the time it took workers to form them by hand.

Peeps used to have wings. They were clipped in 1955, two years after the first marshmallow chicks hatched, to give the candy a sleeker, more "modern" look.

The final flourish for all of these squishy balls of sweetness is adding the eyes, which are made of carnauba-a non-toxic edible wax (that is also found in some shoe polishes and car waxes, plus many other candies).

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

ANSWER: Oprah Winfrey.

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