Good morning Phoenix! It’s time for Trivia Tuesday. This week’s
spotlight is on Mira. As you all well know, there’s two things she loves
besides Kellan. Those two things are Harry Potter and Gummy Bears! That will be
the subject of today’s trivia.
• There's a very good reason Haribo's “Arsch mit Ohren”
(translation: a German insult meaning “ass with ears”) was a limited edition.
There's also a good reason Trolli's “Road Kill” gummies weren't so well
received. The company was forced to stop making gummies in the shape of
flattened critters with tire marks in 2005, after the New Jersey Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals argued it encouraged children to be cruel
to animals. Meanwhile, across the world, a Japanese restaurant offers
life-sized gummy models of customers.
• The Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest gummy
bear in recorded history as an 81-pound, 3-ounce gummy bear that stood two feet
tall and two feet wide. A Sunday school class teamed up with a restaurant in
San Antonio, Texas in 2011 to create the sugary behemoth. Other notable gargantuan
gummies include a three-pound, two-foot, 4,000-calorie gummy worm sold online.
• A Washington, D.C. science teacher’s experiment went viral
in 2008, in the video of a red gummi bear meeting his maker in a prolonged
fiery explosion inside a test tube filled with hot potassium chlorate. KClO3 is
a strong oxidizing agent often used as a disinfectant and in fireworks and
explosives. Gummi bears contain lots of sucrose, which is a substance easily
oxidized. Mix ‘em together and heat it all up and you get a dazzling dance
recital from a flaming piece of candy.
• A popular, highly unsanctioned, alternate adult use of
gummy candy—bears seem to be most often used—is to soak them in vodka for a
prescribed amount of time, after which time they become a happy hour treat. The
gummies absorb the alcohol and pack a little extra punch.
• At the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the
credits say, “No dragons were harmed in the making of this movie.”
• The actress who played Moaning Myrtle (Shirley Henderson)
was 37 years old during the second film.
• Mad-Eye Moody and Bill Weasley are related in real life.
Brendan Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson are father and son.
• Rupert was removed from the set during Harry and
Hermione’s kissing scene because he was laughing too much.
• JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday: July
31. (1980 for Harry, and 1965 for JK)
• Vol de Mort means “Flight of Death” in French.
Enjoy, and have a fangtastic day my friends!
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Brock V"""V
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