Today's Dippit!

Quote

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

Aristotle

Joke

Why wouldn’t the shrimp share his treasure? Because he was a little shellfish.

Fun Fact

Buckingham Palace in London, England, has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms.

Reading Fact

It takes about 475 hours to write a novel book.

History Fact

One man survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and then later Nagasaki.

as a 29-year-old Naval Engineer on a three-month business trip to Hiroshima. On August the 6th 1945, the Enola Gay dropped its atomic payload on the city.

Yamaguchi was less than 2 miles from ground zero and was thrown into a potato patch.

He survived the blast and was able to make a perilous journey through the devastated city to the railway station.

Here, on August the 7th, he boarded a train on an overnight ride to his hometown of Nagasaki.

On the morning of August 9th, he was with some colleagues in an office building when another boom split the sound barrier. A flash of white light filled the sky.

Yamaguchi emerged from the wreckage with only minor injuries on top of his current injuries. He had survived two nuclear blasts in two days.

Movie/TV Trivia

To clean the Wookie suits for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the costuming department used vodka and tea tree oil, sanitizing them and cutting down on drying time.

Movie/TV Quote

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." 

Love Story, 1970

Fun Fact

Two years later Ryan O'Neal will hear this line again in the film What's Up Doc when Barbara Streisand says it to his character and respond, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Conversation Starter

What trends did you follow when you were younger?

Writing Prompt

What dream did I have to give up to get where I am?