Quote
“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.”
George Bernard Shaw
Joke
How does Moses make coffee? Hebrews it
Fun Fact
There’s a sport called “squirrel fishing” in which participants try to catch squirrels and lift them into the air by using a nut on a fishing pole.
Reading Fact
In the Harvard Library, there are three books suspected to be bound in human skin.
One of Harvard Library’s books, Des destinées de l’ame, is 99.9% certain to have been bound in human skin. It has been sitting in Harvard’s Houghton Library since the 1930s.
The practice of binding books in human skin was not at all uncommon in the 15th century, and was done to commemorate the dead, among other reasons.
History Fact
The Roman lottery’s prizes were known and were damn savage at times.
Created by Emperor Augustus Caesar for the same reason, to fund government projects such as repair works, the Roman lottery came with prizes that were objects usually varied in value.
Pretty tame, right? Well, one Roman Emperor’s lottery prizes weren’t so friendly at all.
Elagabalus, who reigned between 218 & 222 AD (and we’ll come back to that whole “4-year reign” tidbit shortly) was known for his cruel running of the lottery.
At first, his lottery was pretty brilliant and had prizes such as slaves or houses.
However, not long into his reign, he started having lottery tickets catapulted into crowds of gathered plebs.
Oh, did I forget to mention that he also catapulted live freaking venomous snakes into the crowd along with the lottery tickets?!
What about the fact that, not after long, the prizes tended to be things like dead animals, death sentences. Even goddamn wasps and bees.
So, going to back to his short reign, it should come as no surprise that he made for a pretty nasty emperor and was assassinated after four years at the age of 18!
Movie/TV Trivia
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for.
Movie/TV Quote
"Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The first time I saw this, I'd been battling migraine-like pain for a decade with no diagnosis. Now, I'm in the same predicament, but this quote keeps me from losing it. I literally had it put on a mug two Christmases ago to remind me.
Conversation Starter
Do you prefer summer or winter activities?
Writing Prompt
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