TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, July 18, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

What a busy weekend! On Saturday night, I went with a friend and her sister to the world's largest block party at Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago for some entertainment by the Barenaked Ladies. It was a beautiful night in the city to be outside listening to some music and just having a good time.

On Sunday, my boyfriend and I went with my aunt and my godson to the zoo. I've never been to the zoo with a young child. It was great to experience it from their eyes and remember when I was young and my mom used to take me to the zoo. The best part was definitely the dolphin show. So cool! It was a great weekend, but now I could use a day off to recover!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Our patience will achieve more than our force."

HINT: (1729-1797), Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.

RANDOM TIDBITS
The chow is the only dog that has a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.

Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relatives the pocket mice, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air they breathe.

A crocodile weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human being's jaws exert a force of only 40 to 80 pounds.

A rat can fall from a five-story building without injury.
Two rats can become the progenitors of 15,000 rats in less than a year.

A full-grown moose may be eight feet high at the shoulder and weigh almost a ton. The male moose sheds its antlers every winter and grows a new set the following summer.

The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

VIDEO CLIP
Maggie The Counting Dog
This dog is unbelievable. Ask this cute pooch, Maggie, a basic math question and she'll give you the answer by tapping her paw on the ground.

Watch It Now: Maggie The Counting Dog

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Our patience will achieve more than our force."

ANSWER: Edmund Burke

*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I am so small, and sometimes I'm missed.
I get misplaced, misused, and help you when you list.
People usually pause when they see me,
So can you tell me what I could be?

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