Quote
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
Joke
I bought some shoes on the drug black market…I don't know what they're laced with, but I've been tripping all day!
Fun Fact
The hardest working muscle in your body is your heart: It pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood a day and beats more than 2.5 billion times in a 70-year life span.
Reading Fact
In the Harvard Library, there are three books suspected to be bound in human skin.
One of Harvard Library’s books, Des destinées de l’ame, is 99.9% certain to have been bound in human skin. It has been sitting in Harvard’s Houghton Library since the 1930s.
The practice of binding books in human skin was not at all uncommon in the 15th century, and was done to commemorate the dead, among other reasons.
History Fact
George Washington might have been the first president of the United States, but he also should have been first in line to see a doctor: the guy variously contracted malaria, dysentery, small pox, and diphtheria, among other diseases.
Movie/TV Trivia
Amélie
Audrey Tautou doesn't know how to skip stones; the stone-skipping scenes were made with special effects.
Movie/TV Quote
"I feel the need - the need for speed!"
Top Gun, 1986
Conversation Starter
Who is most influential in your life?
Writing Prompt
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