Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."

Richard P. Feynman

Joke What would you get if you'd put a lawyer in a suit? A lawsuit

Fun Fact

There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮

Reading Fact

80% of young adults between the ages of 18 - 29 have read a book in the past year, compared to only 68% of 50 - 64-year-olds.

History Fact

True To Message

Thomas Paine’s treatise Common Sense played a major part in swaying the American public in favor of independence, and it outsold any other book of its time, but Paine himself didn’t make any profit. Instead, he used his portion of the sales to buy mittens for American troops stationed in Canada during the American Revolution. He allowed anyone to freely reproduce the pamphlet, as long as they covered the printing costs.

Movie/TV Trivia

Schindler's List

During production, the atmosphere was so grim and depressing that Steven Spielberg asked his friend Robin Williams if he could tell some jokes and do comedy sketches while Spielberg would watch episodes of Seinfeld (1989). Some of Williams' sketches, while played through the speaker phone to the cast and crew, ended up being part of dialogue material for his character in Aladdin (1992), the Genie.

Movie/TV Quote

"We'll always have Paris." 

Casablanca, 1942

Conversation Starter

What do you think people need to know about each other before they get married?

Writing Prompt

Your elderly character escapes from the retirement home where his or her children have placed him or her....