Today's Dippit!

Quote "Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage." 

Naval Ravikant

Joke

What is worse than raining cats and dogs?

Hailing taxis!

Fun Fact

Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

Reading Fact

If you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies.

History Fact

Charles Darwin invented his own wheeled office chair.

Why? Because the man was a genius, that’s why.

Although office chairs that were wheeled were already in production, they were not comfortable or in any way as ergonomic as what we have nowadays.

So, Darwin did something radical with his luxury armchair.

The man was a renowned workaholic, and when he wasn’t collecting specimens or eating them, he was sat down studying them and making notes.

He found that, in his study or lab area, he would have to go through the rigmarole of walking about the office from bench to bench, desk to desk.

So, to maximize his productivity and save him some valuable study time, he decided to attach wheels to his luxurious armchair.

Movie/TV Trivia

The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie

Movie/TV Quote

"I see dead people." 

The Sixth Sense, 1999

Fun Fact

When Haley Joel Osmet says this line the camera goes to Bruce Willis's face. This is a cinematic clue that Bruce Willis's character is dead.

Conversation Starter

What do you think about game shows? Do you have a favourite one?

Writing Prompt

Your character is visiting his parents over a holiday. He is returning some books to the library for his mother and is startled to notice that the librarian looks exactly like him, only about thirty years older. He immediately begins to suspect that his mother had an affair at one time and the librarian is his real father...