Today's Dippit!

Quote

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Joke

The man who survived pepper spray and mustard gas is now a seasoned veteran

Fun Fact

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman. It was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French.

Reading Fact

In the Harvard Library, there are three books suspected to be bound in human skin.

One of Harvard Library’s books, Des destinées de l’ame, is 99.9% certain to have been bound in human skin. It has been sitting in Harvard’s Houghton Library since the 1930s.

The practice of binding books in human skin was not at all uncommon in the 15th century, and was done to commemorate the dead, among other reasons.

History Fact

Patriotic Debt

Girard isn’t the only financial hero in American history. Businessman and broker Haym Salomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse. Salomon personally leant George Washington $650,000 ($16 million in 2013 dollars).

Movie/TV Trivia

Amélie

Audrey Tautou doesn't know how to skip stones; the stone-skipping scenes were made with special effects.

Movie/TV Quote

"Shane. Shane. Come back!" 

Shane, 1953

Conversation Starter

How would your partner describe you?

Writing Prompt

How would your partner describe you?