Today's Dippit!

Quote

"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare." 

Maya Angelou

Joke

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

Time to get a new clock.

Fun Fact

In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.

Reading Fact

There are more public libraries than McDonald’s restaurants in the United States.

There are exactly 121,000 libraries (including 16,766 public libraries) in the US, compared to 14,157 McDonald’s restaurants. The Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. is the largest in the world, with over 158 million items collected.

The smallest book in the library is Old King Cole, measuring just 1/25 of an inch square – about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. 

History Fact

A Chernobyl firefighter was exposed to so much radiation, it changed his eye color.

Vladimir Pravik was one of the first firefighters to reach Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26th, 1986.

His job there was to contain the flames spewing from the building.

During his shift dousing the highly-radioactive flames of the burning reactor core, he was exposed to a shockingly lethal dose of radiation.

It was so deadly that it changed his eye color from brown to blue.

Like the majority of the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster, Vladimir died 15 days later from severe radiation poisoning.

Movie/TV Trivia

Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.

Movie/TV Quote

"Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape." 

Planet of the Apes, 1968

Conversation Starter

How often do you go to the library?

Writing Prompt

Are You the Same Person on Social Media as You Are in Real Life?