TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, April 20, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today's fun facts are all about crayons. Although coloring may be geared towards children, sometimes I find that it can be very therapeutic!

In fact, when my little cousins ask me to color with them, I'm usually the last one with my crayons long after they have grown bored with it. However, I usually can't get anyone to hang my masterpieces on their fridge!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

HINT:(June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887)Was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer.


RANDOM TIDBITS
On average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.

The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his or her tenth birthday.

The scent of Crayola crayons is among the twenty most recognizable to American adults.

Washington Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon when he published The Sketch-Book, a collection of short stories and essays, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

Alice Binney, wife of company co-owner Edwin Binney, coined the word Crayola by joining craie, from the French word meaning chalk, with ola, from oleaginous, meaning oily.

In 1903, the Binney & Smith company made the first box of Crayola crayons costing a nickel and containing eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black.


*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I'm a unit of heat generation.
I am prone to great quantification.
There are many aware
Of the numbers I bear
Some in triumph, and some in frustration.
What am I?

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

ANSWER: Henry Ward Beecher

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