Quote
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
Leo Burnett
Joke
Why don't skeletons ever go trick or treating? Because they have no body to go with!
Fun Fact
There are more than 24 time zones around the world.
If the Earth's time zones were each one hour apart, then we would have 24 times zones, which sounds pretty straightforward. However, the situation is a little more complicated than that. Since many time zones only differ by 30 or 45 minutes, they don't fit into a neat and tidy 24 hour span, which means that there are more than 24, though it's hard to say exactly how many.
Reading Fact
The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for $30.8 million.
It was Codex Leicester by Leonardo Da Vinci, and it was purchased by Bill Gates, according to Business Insider. Don’t worry though, he probably made the money back within the hour.
History Fact
Calvin Coolidge Owned a Pair of Lions
Former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge had many a pets, ranging from a donkey to a bobcat. Oh, and a pair of lions. They were gifted as cubs from the government of South Africa. Their names? Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
Movie/TV Trivia
Years before Hit-Girl caused Daily Mail readers heads to explode with the use of the C-word, its first outing in Hollywood was in Carnal Knowledge. Jack Nicolson’s character Jonathan utters the impressively eloquent line, “Answer me, you ball-busting, castrating, son of a cunt bitch!”. The actor would later call Nurse Ratched, “something of a cunt” in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Movie/TV Quote
“Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.”
Boy Meets World
And then Topanga comes in and corrects him grammatically, “You mean do well.” Then Mr. Feeny responds, "No, do GOOD." Ugh, that whole scene in general just wrecked me and to this day still gets to me!
Conversation Starter
Records, tapes, CDs, MP3s. Which did you grow up with? What is good and bad about each?
Writing Prompt