Quote
“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”
Jennifer Aniston
Joke
I'm on a seafood diet. Every time I see food, I eat it
Fun Fact
Tickling has been divided into two types. Knismesis refers to “light feather-like” tickling and gargalesis refers to “harder laughter-inducing” tickling.
Reading Fact
Portuguese Library Biblioteca Joanina is home to a swarm of bats that feed on book-eating insects every night.
Biblioteca Joanina has a rather unlikely cleaning crew – in this grand old Portuguese library, bats act as pest control. Swarms of bats hide behind the rococo bookcases during the day, while at night they feast on book-damaging insects, helping preserve the over 300-year-old building and its rich cultural heritage.
Human bookworms are safe, though.
History Fact
For 12 years during the French Revolutionary Period, France had a whole new calendar.
Not just that, but they also had a whole new timekeeping system too!
Between 1793 and 1805, the ruling French government used the French Republican Calendar to remove all religious and royalist ties to the old calendar.
It was also part of a wider effort decimalize France in terms of time, currency and metrication.
The French Republican Calendar had 10-hour days, with 100 minutes to an hour, and 100 seconds to a minute.
Whilst this crazy calendar did have 12 months, each one of these months was 30 days. They were all given new names that reflected a meaning for each season.
For example one in winter was named Nivôse, which is Latin for “snow”.
Movie/TV Trivia
Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
Movie/TV Quote
“We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.”
Black Panther
Conversation Starter
Do you wish there were more or less holidays? Why?
Writing Prompt
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