TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

On St. Patrick's Day, I tried something I never had before - a Shamrock shake from McDonalds! Everyone I told was very surprised that I had never had one before, but I guess I go to McDonalds so rarely that I never really gave it much thought.

But on Saturday afternoon, I decided to treat myself after a busy morning of cleaning - and I even walked there since it's only a few blocks away! This way I felt slightly less guilty about the calories I was slurping down. I am glad I finally tried one though, it was a mighty delicious minty treat!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

HINT: (1871-1922), French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental Ã? la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past).


RANDOM TIDBITS
Margaret Knight, an employee at the Columbia Paper Bag Company, was one of the first women in the United States to hold a patent. She invented a machine that folded and glued flat-bottomed bags, the type most grocery stores use today.

Plastic grocery store sacks, properly called "T-shirt bags," were introduced in 1977. Kroger and Safeway were the first two supermarket chains to replace brown paper craft bags with T-shirt bags.

In 1988, the Supreme Court upheld the right of law enforcement officials to search through a person's curb-side garbage bags without a warrant.

Plastic dry-cleaning bags became controversial shortly after their introduction in 1958. Many parents, unaware of the suffocation danger inherent in the lightweight plastic, used the bags as leak-proof crib linings and mattress covers. The tragic infant deaths due to the plastic bags resulted in the warnings that are printed on all dry-cleaning bags today.

Dow Chemical introduced the Ziploc bag in 1968. The company test-marketed them in select U.S. regions the following year with outstanding results. Today it is estimated that the average American uses 40 of these bags per year.

Felix the Cat was created by Otto Messmer in 1919, but it wasn't until the "wonderful, wonderful cat" was retooled in 1954 by Dell Comics artist Joe Oriolo that his Magic Bag of Tricks was added to the mix.


VIDEO CLIP
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

ANSWER: Marcel Proust.

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