Today's Dippit!

Quote "Your work is something connected deeply to who you are, not a separate compartment in your life." 

Robert Greene

Joke

Boy complains to his father: You told me to put a potato in my swimming trunks! You said it would impress the girls at the pool! But you forgot to mention one thing!

Father: Really, what?

Boy: That the potato should go in the front.

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

Rough estimate shows that an average person reads 250 words per minute. Depending on the aim of reading, the number of words read per minute may vary. Are you reading for skimming (getting main points quickly), for comprehension, for learning, or for memorization? It is essential to know your goals in order to slow down and speed up whenever the need arises.

History Fact

Rasputin survived being poisoned and being shot.

Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and supposed holy man. He became friends with the last Russian Tsar and Tsarina.

Over time, he came to influence the Russian royals much to the displeasure of many members of the Russian nobility.

This, combined with his drunkenness and lechery, led to several Russian nobles forming a plot to assassinate the man.

They invited him over to one of their houses, gave him cakes and wine laced with cyanide all to no effect, and then shot him in the chest.

To their horror, Rasputin started to cough and they realized he was still alive!

How did they fix the problem? The nobles shot Rasputin two more times – once in the head. Finally they threw his body into the frozen Malaya Nevka River.

Movie/TV Trivia

The Dark Knight made more money in its first six days in the US than Batman Begins made in its entire domestic run.

Movie/TV Quote

“That'll do, pig. That'll do.”

Babe, 1995

Conversation Starter

If you had intro music, what song would it be? Why?

This question can lead to a good conversation about their favorite song or the music they like.

Writing Prompt

Make a map of your failures indicating the rough date they occurred. Write beside each one what you learned.