Today's Dippit!

Quote of the Day

"Make your passion and your work one and the same and do it with people you want to be with."

Ray Dalio

Writing Prompt of the Day

What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off?

Day's Conversation Starter

What do you hope to achieve in your professional life?

Joke of the Day

My wife told me I had to stop acting like a flamingo. So I had to put my foot down!

Top Fun Fact

It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely.

History Fact

The 1929 Wall Street Crash Did Not Cause a Rash of Suicides

On Black Tuesday, October 24th, 1929, the most shocking stock market crash occurred in U.S. history. It is widely believed that this financial crisis caused countless deaths by suicide, but this was not the case. There were two.

Weird Laws

Maryland: No cursing while driving

Making road rage even rage-ier, it is illegal to swear or curse upon any street or highway in Rockville, Maryland. Anyone caught swearing faces a misdemeanor charge, effectively having to add $100 to the city swear jar.

Foody Things

Where to Eat

Think we're wrong to pick Italy as the top for food in Europe? What if we told you the No. 1 restaurant in the world, according to the World's Best Restaurants list, was Osteria Francescana in Modena?

The restaurant's clever takes on traditional Italian pastas and meat dishes are made with exceptional care by chef Massimo Bottura, who dearly loves his home country.

Others that made the best-of list? No. 16's Piazza Duomo in Alba and No. 23's Le Calandre in Rubano.

Michelin also added Uliassi in Senigallia to its list of 3-Star restaurants in 2019.

Michelin's Italian Guide features 367 restaurants in total.

Enough said.

Movie/TV Trivia

Titanic

After finding out that she had to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet decided to break the ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.

Movie/TV Quote

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Jaws, 1975