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Today's Dippit!

Quote

 "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."


Maya Angelou


Joke

How did the picture end up in jail? It was framed!


Fun Fact

The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.

 

The first mobile device to be called an "iPhone" was made by Cisco, not Apple. It allowed the user to use the voice functions of Skype without a computer. Apple announced its own product just 22 days later, and Cisco sued for trademark infringement. The lawsuit was ultimately settled out of court and both companies were allowed to keep using the name. However, you've probably never heard of the Cisco iPhone.


Reading Fact

A German 16th-century religious book can be read in six different ways because of how it’s bound.


This unique volume is a completely different take on dos-à-dos binding: it can be opened (and read) in six different ways. Cleverly hidden inside a single binding, this volume contains in fact six different books – each one bound separately and closed with its own clasp.


The book was printed in Germany and contains religious devotional texts, including Martin Luther’s Der Kleine Catechismus. It’s a part of the collection of the Rogge Library in Strängnäs, Sweden. 


History Fact

Failed Attempts


In South Korea in 1968, while four brothers were out searching for firewood, they stumbled across the camp of a group of North Korean commandos on a mission to assassinate the South Korean president. The commandos lectured them on the benefits of communism and spared their lives, but both of their missions failed as the brothers, unconverted, alerted the police.


Movie/TV Trivia

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

 

Georgie Henley's reaction to Mr. Tumnus at the lamppost is genuine. She had not seen her castmate James McAvoy in his costume before the scene was filmed, so her screams and reaction were real. Georgie's first reaction to the snowy world of Narnia is also genuine. She was carried into the set blindfolded to make her first entrance, and her wide-eyed, delighted reactions to it, all are entirely her own.\


Movie/TV Quote

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" 

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948


Conversation Starter

Would you ever get a tattoo? What would it be?


Writing Prompt

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