Today's Dippit!

Quote

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” 

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Joke

Last night, I dreamed I was swimming in an ocean of orange soda. But it was just a Fanta sea

Fun Fact

The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely. The real Buddha was actually incredibly skinny because of self-deprivation.

Reading Fact

The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely. The real Buddha was actually incredibly skinny because of self-deprivation.

History Fact

The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling a still-beating heart out of a victim's chest.

Movie/TV Trivia

Toy Story 2 Was Almost Deleted

A command entered in the "master machine" where the animation for Toy Story 2 was stored deleted 90 percent of the work the Pixar team had done on it. As Mental Floss describes, "A plan was quickly hatched to restore the data from a regular backup, which meant that only half a day of work would have been lost. But the backup system had failed. Pixar, incredibly, did not have a copy of the Toy Story 2 files on its servers." Fortunately, the film's technical director had a copy she had been working on from home, and much of it was restored.

Movie/TV Quote

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."

 All About Eve, 1950

Conversation Starter

If you could only store one type of food in your pocket, what would you carry?

Writing Prompt

Your character's boss invites her and her husband to dinner. Your character wants to make a good impression, but her husband has a tendency to drink too much and say exactly what's on his mind...