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Quote

“Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.”


T.D. Jakes


Joke

German sausage jokes are just the wurst


Fun Fact

The word “Jurassic,” which we so often associate with dinosaurs, comes from the Celtic word for “forest”.


Reading Fact

James Patterson, the author of Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club series, was the first-ever writer to exceed one million sales in ebooks.


James Patterson achieved the one million mark in July 2010. Later that month, Amazon announced that Patterson’s competitor – Stieg Larsson – has also sold over one million digital copies in his Millennium trilogy, making him the first one to sell more than 1 million paid Kindle books and enter Amazon’s exclusive Kindle Million Club


History Fact

The Circus Maximum in Rome is still the largest capacity sports arena ever built.

 

It was used for the execution of prisoners like Christian and Jewish people, part of the Roman Triumph, along with chariot racing.


Historians believe the Circus Maximum could hold between 150,000 – 250,000 people at any given time.


This means that it could hold more spectators than the Rungrado May Day Stadium in North Korea – the world’s largest capacity stadium – which can hold roughly 114,000 people.


Movie/TV Trivia

The Shawshank Redemption, #1 on imdb was the 51st highest grossing film in 94′, way behind Street Fighter (1994).


Movie/TV Quote

“I'm the king of the world!”


Titanic, 1997


Conversation Starter

If some of the lesser known holidays were commercialized, what would the commercialization look like?


Writing Prompt

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