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Quote

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."


Anne Frank


Joke

What do you call someone with no body and no nose? Nobody knows.


Fun Fact

The hottest spot on the planet is in Libya.

 

Specifically, the hottest spot ever recorded on Earth is El Azizia, in Libya, where a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on Sept. 13, 1922. While hotter spots have likely occurred in other parts of the planet at other times, this is the most scorching temperature ever formally recorded by a weather station.


Reading Fact

People who read novels live longer


History Fact

In medieval times people were put to death for being witches. One anthropologist conjectures as many as 600,000 "witches" lost their lives.


Movie/TV Trivia

One minute of The Nightmare Before Christmas took an entire week to film


The Nightmare Before Christmas is a kid’s classic now, but back in the early 90s when Tim Burton was making the movie, it’s fair to say that special effects definitely weren’t at their peak.

 

In fact, things moved so slowly that each minute of animated footage took an entire week to film. Wow. It took a group of around 100 people almost three years to make the movie – on average each second required 12 stop-motion moves.

 

It’s no wonder that Tim Burton didn’t want to make a sequel! Disney wanted to make a second movie using computer animation (which would have made things slightly easier), but Burton was having none of it.

“I was always very protective of [Nightmare] not to do sequels or things of that kind,” Burton explained.

 

“You know, ‘Jack visits Thanksgiving world’ or other kinds of things just because I felt the movie had a purity to it and the people that like it.”


Movie/TV Quote

“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!”


Midnight Cowboy, 1969


Conversation Starter

If your mind was an island, what would it look like?


Writing Prompt

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