Quote
“You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.”
Anonymous
Joke
Need an ark? I Noah guy
Fun Fact
Sudan has more pyramids than any country with 255. They outnumber Egyptian pyramids by twice the amount.
Reading Fact
Written in AD 123, Chariton’s Chaereas & Callirhoe is the oldest existing novel in the world.
This ancient Greek prose romance narrates the adventures of a just-married couple, overwhelmingly beautiful Callirhoe and handsome Chaereas, whose relationship is put to a test when Callirhoe’s former suitors plot a scheme to rip the lovers apart.
History Fact
There were “dance marathons” during the Great Depression.
It wasn’t exactly a means of keeping the American spirit up through the darkest financial crisis in its history, either.
These human endurance contests served as a way of giving broke married couples a roof over their head and food to eat for a few days.
The dance partners would take turns sleeping while the other propped them up and continued dancing with them.
Movie/TV Trivia
The ‘Bong’ sound/musical cue in Inception is actually the song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf slowed down.
Movie/TV Quote
“There's no place like home.”
The Wizard of Oz, 1939
Conversation Starter
What holidays have been over commercialized?
Writing Prompt
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