TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, August 28, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

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

Under pressure is the only way I work,
and by myself is the only way I'm hurt.

What am I?

ANSWER: A diamond.

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

HINT: (1884-1968), was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

RANDOM TIDBITS
Splenda was an insecticide that became a sweetener when an assistant misheard an order to "test" it as "taste" it.

A stick of chewing gum costs five cents to buy but 17 cents to clean off the pavement.

Second Street is the most common street name in the USA. First Street is the third most common.

The Green Zone Golf Club is on the border of Finland and Sweden: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.

Bruce Lee was Hong Kong's 1958 cha-cha dance champion.

The nectar of citrus plants contains caffeine to attract bees.

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

ANSWER: Norman Thomas.

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