Today's Dippit!

Quote

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go." 

Carol Burnett

Joke

How do you get a squirrel to like you?

Act like a nut!

Fun Fact

Sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.

Reading Fact

A book that purifies water, The Drinkable Book, is printed on filter paper capable of killing deadly waterborne bacteria.

A book that purifies water was created by non-profit organization WATERisLIFE to raise awareness on proper sanitation and hygiene. Each page is coated with silver nanoparticles that instantly kill waterborne bacteria that cause diseases such as cholera, typhoid, and E. coli.

But apart from being a cleaning filter, the book teaches the importance of proper sanitation and hygiene. 

History Fact

Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, didn’t have a funeral or headstone.

The Enola Gay is a plane that will live on in history until the end of man.

As the plane to drop the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, it is both a sign of oppression and freedom.

The pilot of this plane was one Paul Tibbets who, being close to death in his old age, decided he didn’t want a funeral or a headstone as he worried it would become a place for protesting nuclear armament.

Instead, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the English Channel.

Movie/TV Trivia

Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.

Movie/TV Quote

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

Psycho, 1960

Conversation Starter

Do you like horror movies? Why or why not?

Writing Prompt

Your character gets cosmetic surgery in an attempt to make her boyfriend love her more. But then she worries he only loves her for her looks....