Quote
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking."
Steve Jobs
Joke
Why is the number six afraid of seven? Because seven ate nine
Fun Fact
The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.
It sounds like something out of a horror film, but it's all too real: The Elysia cf. marginata, a type of sea slug, has been found to not only survive decapitation, but to be able to grow a whole new body from it. Ecologists at Nara Women's University in Japan found that, a few hours after having their heads severed from their bodies, the snails' heads were already nibbling on algae as if nothing had happened. In about 20 days, one-third of the sea slugs studied had fully grown back their bodies—heart included.
Reading Fact
When Victor Hugo was facing a tight schedule for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he asked his valet to confiscate his clothes so that he wouldn’t leave the house.
During cold days, Hugo would wrap himself in a blanket while writing. According to his wife, while writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he even purchased a “huge grey knitted shawl which swathed him from head to foot, locked his formal clothes away so that he would not be tempted to go out and entered his novel as if it were a prison.”
It took Hugo over half a year of nonstop work to finish the three-volume novel.
History Fact
Winston Churchill had a Doctor’s note to drink an “indefinite” amount of alcohol in Prohibition America.
Other than defiant hand gestures, iconic speeches, cigars and dapper hats, Winston Churchill is also renowned for his love of alcohol. Whiskey in particular.
In 1931, Churchill was involved in a car accident which left him with chest pain, as well as having bouts of depression to contend with.
Because of this, he was granted a Doctor’s note in 1932 for his time in the United States This allowed him drink an “indefinite” amount of alcohol for his duration of time in the Prohibition-era United States.
Movie/TV Trivia
In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
Movie/TV Quote
“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
Conversation Starter
Does government have a place in regulating food? To what extent should government regulate food?
Writing Prompt
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