Quote
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
Joke
I made a pencil with two erasers. It was pointless.
Fun Fact
Chewing gum boosts concentration.
Next time you are having trouble focusing, you might want to reach for a stick of gum. A 2013 study in the British Journal of Psychology found that those subjects who chewed gum while taking part in a memory challenge were able to stay focused for longer periods of time than those who did not chew gum.
Reading Fact
80% of young adults between the ages of 18 - 29 have read a book in the past year, compared to only 68% of 50 - 64-year-olds.
History Fact
People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the "dead" the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.
Movie/TV Trivia
The entire cast and crew of Titanic were poisoned and nobody knows who did it to this day
Tragedy befell the set of Titanic after the entire cast and crew were poisoned. Everyone who worked on the movie was enjoying a celebratory meal when suddenly people started to fall ill.
It turned out that the clam chowder had been spiked with PCP! Crew member Marilyn McAvoy remembered the incident: “There was no indication that there was anything strange happening… until the meal.
“By the time we got back from eating, after about 30 minutes, that’s when I started noticing something was wrong. Everyone seemed confused.
“Everyone was having trouble getting their work done. […] I also heard later on that as soon as James Cameron realised something had been put in the chowder, he ran up to his room and forced himself to throw up.” McAvoy said that despite being mildly funny, it was also a traumatic incident which left many people in hospital suffering from bad trips.
To this day, nobody knows who was responsible for the mass poisoning. Some people have blamed a chef who got sacked from production, but nobody has ever been brought to justice.
Movie/TV Quote
“You’re killin’ me, Smalls.”
The Sandlot, 1993
Conversation Starter
Have you ever stalked someone on social media?
Writing Prompt
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