Quote
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
Mother Teresa
Joke
I bought a boat because it was for sail
Fun Fact
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don't realize what lies beneath the surface. In the '10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet.
Reading Fact
There are more public libraries than McDonald’s restaurants in the United States.
There are exactly 121,000 libraries (including 16,766 public libraries) in the US, compared to 14,157 McDonald’s restaurants. The Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. is the largest in the world, with over 158 million items collected.
The smallest book in the library is Old King Cole, measuring just 1/25 of an inch square – about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
History Fact
The Soviet Union tried to snuff out the memory of Genghis Khan.
During the Soviet-era rule of the late 20th century, simply mentioning the great conqueror’s name was a crime against the USSR.
The Soviets removed his story from school textbooks and outlawed pilgrimages to his birthplace of Khentii.
After Mongolia gained their independence in the early 1990s, he was restored to his rightful place as a national hero of Mongolia.
He appeared in the art and popular culture, as well as on Mongolian currency.
Movie/TV Trivia
Blues Brothers had a specific budget set aside for cocaine
Everyone knows that John Belushi was a troubled man. Belushi’s crippling drug addiction severely harmed his comedy career and the performer was booted off the set of Saturday Night Live more than a few times for his behaviour.
But it turns out that his chronic addiction to cocaine probably wasn’t helped by the fact that the Blues Brothers production crew actually set aside a specific amount of money to pay for the white stuff.
Dan Aykroyd was a close friend of Belushi’s and co-starred with him in the hit film. He once explained in an interview: “We had a budget in the movie for cocaine for night shoots. Everyone did it, including me. Never to excess, and not ever to where I wanted to buy it or have it. [But] John, he just loved what it did. It sort of brought him alive at night—that superpower feeling where you start to talk and converse and figure you can solve all the world’s problems.”
Whilst director John Landis tried to keep his star comedian away from drugs, there were plenty of enablers on set who were more than happy to keep dishing out the white lines.
Movie/TV Quote
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
The Help, 2011
Conversation Starter
If your life was a meal, what would kind of meal would it be?
Writing Prompt
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