Daily Quote
"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."
Louisa May Alcott
Joke of the Day
How do you make a tissue dance? You put a little boogie in it.
Fun Fact
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Yep, his full name is Robert Allen Zimmerman – he started going by Bob Dylan early on in his career for no real reason. Simply because he wanted to!
History Fact
People were buried alive so often, that bells were attached to their coffins.
Due to medicine not being so great, comatose people were sometimes mistakenly buried alive.
In order to counteract these potential blunders, people were buried with little bells above ground. These bells were attached to a string, which went into the coffin.
If the person was buried alive, and later woke up they would tug on the string that would ring the bell above ground.
Someone would hear it and then dig the person out of their premature resting place.
Movie/TV Trivia
Only Lovers Left Alive
All of the cast members playing vampires wore wigs that were a mix of human, yak, and goat hair, in order to make them look wilder.
Movie/TV Quote
"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Gone With the Wind, 1939
Conversation Starter
What hurts your feelings?
Writing Prompt
When Have You Failed? What Did You Learn From It?
Weird Laws
Michigan
Hope you’re not travelling through the state by train, because you’ll need to do that sober. If you want to be tipsy on a train, you’ll just have to wait till you’re back in some other state that cares less about these things.
Food Thing
Century Egg / 100 Year Old Egg / 1000 Year Old Egg – China
Yeah, OK, it’s neither a century nor a millennium old, but this egg is pretty rotten. After being preserved in a mixture of clay, ash and quicklime for a few months, the yolk turns a dark green or even black and slimy while the white has turns to a dark brown translucent jelly. Apparently it smells of strongly of sulphur and ammonia, but tastes like a hardboiled egg… until you breathe out that is.