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Quote

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."


Maya Angelou


Joke

What kind of shoes do ninjas wear? Sneakers!


Fun Fact

The English word with the most definitions is "set."

 

According to Guinness World Records, "set" has the largest number of meanings of any word in the English language, with 430 different senses listed in the 1989 edition of Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The word "sets" the record with an entry running 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters, and no other English word has come close since.


Reading Fact

It's been found that reading enhances our attention spans: the structure of stories helps kids' brains process things in sequence, which holds their attention for longer and enables clear thinking.


History Fact

Upon dying, some pharaohs were sealed into their tombs alongside their living servants, pets, and concubines.


Movie/TV Trivia

Robert De Niro paid a dentist to ruin his teeth


In Cape Fear, Robert De Niro played Max Cady, a sadistic sex offender who vows revenge on his former attorney (portrayed by Nick Nolte).


In order to get an authentic look for the movie, De Niro decided to take things to the extreme by paying a dentist $5,000 to intentionally mess up his teeth. He then had to fork out another $20,000 for his teeth to be fixed afterwards.

 

That’s a good chunk of his pay check on dental work alone!

 

That wasn’t the only film prep De Niro did for the shoot. He hit the gym hard several months before filming began and reportedly brought his total body fat down to only three percent. Wow! Talk about dedication.

The actor also used to regularly call veteran director Martin Scorsese’s home and leave voicemails in Cady’s thick accent because he knew that Scorsese hated the voice.

 

Fortunately for De Niro, he and Scorsese are good friends so the director got over it in the end!


Movie/TV Quote

“Snap out of it!”


Moonstruck, 1987


Conversation Starter

If you could only store one type of food in your pocket, what would you carry?


Writing Prompt

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