Daily Quote
"Never make a companion equal to a brother."
Hesiod
Joke of the Day
"Is this pool safe for diving? It deep ends."
Fun Fact
Madonna suffers from brontophobia, which is the fear of thunder.
This scary sounding word isn’t so complicated – it’s the fear of thunder.
Madonna is so scared of it that she has been known to frequently check weather reports before shows.
The fear of thunder is also known as astraphobia, astrapophobia, keraunophobia or tonitrophobia.
History Fact
Impostor
Look, I don’t want to blow your mind or anything (yes I do), but Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian. She was an ancestor of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s generals.
Movie/TV Trivia
Play It, Sam? Dooley Wilson, Sam in Casablanca, was a professional drummer who couldn’t play the piano. He simply mimed along, copying an offscreen pianist.
Movie/TV Quote
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
The Godfather: Part III, 1990
Conversation Starter
What gives you butterflies?
Writing Prompt
Weird Laws
Kansas: No snowballs
It may still be illegal to throw snowballs in Topeka, Kansas. Thanks to a weirdly-worded law in the city Criminal Code, it is unlawful to “throw any stones, snowballs, or any other missiles” at any person or property in Topeka, an ordinance that former mayor Bill Bunten publicly flouted by tossing a whopper at a snowy tree in 2005. “I'm going to have an ordinance drawn up to repeal this Dumb Law lest our already-crowded prisons are filled up with children who, while making a snowman, got carried away and had a snowball fight,” he later claimed.