Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Love without sacrifice is like theft." 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Joke

Why did the kid bring a ladder to school?

Because she wanted to go to high school.

Fun Fact

Jupiter's red spot is getting taller and smaller at the same time.

Jupiter's red spot is almost as well-known as the planet's remarkable rings. But the spot, which is, in fact, a storm, has been shrinking for a century and a half. Although NASA can't predict what will happen to the storm that was "once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare," they do know that it "seems to have increased in area at least once along the way, and it's growing taller as it gets smaller."

Reading Fact

The longest novel ever written is À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, at 1,267,069 words long.

History Fact

The Big Smoke

Winston Churchill typically smoked eight to ten cigars a day, sometimes as much as fifteen. That’s cigars, not even cigarettes.

Movie/TV Trivia

Courtney Love insists that the role of the heroin dealer, Lance, in Pulp Fiction was offered to Kurt Cobain. Tarantino has steadfastly refuted this claim, saying he never even met the late Nirvana singer.

Movie/TV Quote

"I care. I care a lot. It's kinda my thing."

Parks and Recreation

Conversation Starter

What would your theme song be if you had your own show?

Writing Prompt

Do You Care What You Wear?