Daily Quote
"Once you realize the future is always uncertain and you can’t ever be 100% sure of any decision or have control over the outcome, it is easier to actually go ahead and decide."
Annie Duke
Joke of the Day
What's brown and sticky?
A stick.
Fun Fact
ABBA turned down 1 billion dollars to do a reunion tour.
In 2000, ABBA was offered $1 billion dollars to reunite for 100 shows – which would have been $250 million per member.
They turned it down because it wasn’t for them.
History Fact
Your Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather Was a Mass Murderer
Over the course of his massively powerful campaigning around Asia and Europe, Genghis Khan killed an estimated 40 million people—that was 10% of the world’s population. But he’s also pretty much everyone’s common ancestor, so all that killing and maiming balances out…right?
Movie/TV Trivia
Among Patrick Bateman’s neighbours in the novel of American Psycho is one Tom Cruise
Movie/TV Quote
"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."
It's a Wonderful Life, 1946
Conversation Starter
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you choose and why?
Writing Prompt
Does Stress Affect Your Ability to Make Good Decisions?
Weird Laws
Pennsylvania
One of the popular-but-fake-sounding weird laws for Pennsylvania is that you can’t catch a fish with your mouth. Because I care, I went deep into the Gettysburg Times archives and found, from 2010, a reference to what is apparently still a very real law forbidding you from catching a fish in your mouth. Sometimes the internet is good.
Food Thing
Cherry Blossom Meat – Japan
Interesting one to bring up after that whole European horsemeat scandal. While I have the same aversion most people do to horsemeat, I also kind of recognise the insincerity. I mean, once horses were our companions and transport. Now they are the playthings of rich people. Perhaps something of a nostalgic attachment? Anyway, cherry blossom meat is raw horse, served either on its own or as part of sushi. It’s said to be low in calories and low in fat, but it’s not something I can see myself trying, despite savouring the raw flesh of cows.