Daily Quote
"You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?"
Steven Wright
Joke of the Day
This graveyard looks overcrowded. People must be dying to get in.
Fun Fact
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
Whereas before it was thought that only large brained mammals could distinguish faces, but honeybees can do this as well!
They see faces in a compilation of 5,000 individual images – kind of like pixels.
History Fact
During the Victorian period, it was normal to photograph relatives after they died.
People would dress their newly-deceased relatives in their best clothing, and then put them in lifelike poses and photograph them.
They did this to preserve one last image of their dead loved one in a strange form of commemoration.
Movie/TV Trivia
Million Dollar Baby
Hilary Swank contracted a bacterial infection from a blister she developed on her foot during training for her role. The infection was so serious that she almost had to be hospitalized for three weeks. Catching the infection in the nick of time, she instead chose to take a week off for medicated rest and didn't tell Clint Eastwood or the other producers of the film about the injury, because she didn't believe it was in character.
Movie/TV Quote
"Go ahead, make my day."
Sudden Impact, 1983
Conversation Starter
What was the last thing that made you smile?
Writing Prompt
Do You Want to Live to 100?
Weird Laws
Kentucky
It's unlawful to sell those dyed baby chicks you see around Easter, unless of course you… sell them in groups of six or more.
Food Thing
Tuna Eyeballs – Japan
Although it sounds nasty, apparently it’s rather tame, tasting pretty similar to squid or octopus. None of the gunk you’d normally associate with slicing up eyeballs then?