Quote
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
Joke
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane
Fun Fact
Your tonsils can grow back if there was tissue left behind during the removal process. Sometimes it’s accidental, other times it’s left on purpose.
Reading Fact
Interestingly, reading to children in an interactive way raises their IQ by over 6 points. Parents and schools should take note of this reading fact and consider using audiobooks to make the learning process more effective.
History Fact
4% of the Normandy beaches is made up of shrapnel from the D-Day Landings.
f bombs were dropped by the Allies on the Axis powers as part of the prelude to the Normandy landings.
Scientists have studied the sand on the beaches of Normandy and they’ve found microscopic bits of smoothed down shrapnel from the landings.
They estimate that, within 150 years, the beach will have fully lost any remaining shrapnel to rust and erosion.
Movie/TV Trivia
Ryan Gosling was cast as Noah in The Notebook because the director wanted someone “not handsome.”
Movie/TV Quote
"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't."
Legally Blonde (2001)
Something people forget: Before Legally Blonde was 2001's movie of the summer and everyone was bending and snapping, there was a manuscript floating around, written by Stanford Law dropout Amanda Brown, about a stereotypical blonde from LA entering the cutthroat world of Stanford Law School to get her boyfriend back. Screenwriting partners Karen McCullah and Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, the duo responsible for the 10 Things I Hate About You script and the 2020 sequel Legally Blonde 3, took the novel, subbing in the chilly east coast Harvard Law for Stanford to up the fish-out-of-water juxtaposition, and blew up its premise into an early aughts cultural touchpoint. The opening song was everywhere, and for certain demographics -- i.e. teen girls -- you couldn't have a conversation without dropping a quote from the movie, which is indeed extremely quotable. Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods has many of the best lines, but none surpasses her defense of alleged husband murderer Brooke Taylor Windham, delivered in the first meeting of her law internship. Between Witherspoon's perfect delivery, her "aw, shucks" facial contortions, and the context of her speaking up about a case that seems cut-and-dried to everyone else, the "happy people don't kill their husbands" line perfectly sums up Elle Woods: unafraid and unapologetically herself in any situation, combined with an intuitive understanding of the law.
Conversation Starter
What scifi movie or book would you like the future to be like?
Writing Prompt
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