Quote
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joke
I went to buy some camouflage trousers yesterday but couldn't find any
Fun Fact
Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House, and started allowing visitors for the first time in 2018.
Reading Fact
The University of California has found that people having a ninth-grade (or higher) literacy level, have 4 to 5 times more chances not to suffer mental declines as they age.
History Fact
Cleopatra’s reign was closer to the moon landings than the Great Pyramid being built.
This is one of those facts that gives you some impression of just how expansive the life of the Egyptian Empire truly was.
Cleopatra reigned from 51 BC to 30 BC, roughly 2,500 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was built (between roughly 2580 BC – 2560 BC), and roughly 2,000 years before the first lunar landings in 1969.
Movie/TV Trivia
Django Unchained is the first time in 16 years that Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t get the top billing.
Movie/TV Quote
"If anyone orders merlot, I'm leaving. I am not drinking any fucking merlot!"
Sideways (2004)
"The Sideways Effect" is real: After the 2004 movie came out, in which Paul Giamatti's wine snobby writer Miles Raymond famously loves pinot noirs and infamously hates merlots because his ex-wife drank them, the sales for each wine skyrocketed and plummeted, respectively. (For better or worse, merlot is back on the uptick.) There's a clear line from the hearty red's decline to a specific scene between Miles and his gross friend Jack before they head into an important dinner. Jack asks Miles to behave himself, and drink the merlot if their guests order it, to which Giamatti cannot contain himself in good conscience: "If anyone orders merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT DRINKING any FUCKING merlot!" "You know, it was just a joke," director Alexander Payne told USA Today on the movie's 10th anniversary about Miles' outburst. "But it sort of became the equivalent of 1934's It Happened One Night, when Clark Gable removed his shirt to reveal no undershirt. Reportedly sales of undershirts plummeted. I never would have predicted this film would hit the zeitgeist."
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What was the best invention of the last 50 years?
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