Today's Dippit!

Quote

"Curb your desire — don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need."

Epictetus

Joke

I was going to make a chemistry joke, but since I'm kinda late to the thread, the good ones argon

Fun Fact

There is an island in the Bahamas that's inhabited only by swimming pigs.

Reading Fact

When Victor Hugo was facing a tight schedule for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he asked his valet to confiscate his clothes so that he wouldn’t leave the house.

During cold days, Hugo would wrap himself in a blanket while writing. According to his wife, while writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame, he even purchased a “huge grey knitted shawl which swathed him from head to foot, locked his formal clothes away so that he would not be tempted to go out and entered his novel as if it were a prison.”

It took Hugo over half a year of nonstop work to finish the three-volume novel.

History Fact

Fly Catchers

As if fanning someone all day with a leaf wasn’t hard enough work, in Ancient Egypt, servants were often lathered in honey to keep flies attracted to them and not the Pharaoh.

Movie/TV Trivia

Enya was James Cameron’s first choice to compose the music for Titanic.

Movie/TV Quote

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." 

2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968

Conversation Starter

If you could do anything illegal without getting caught, what would you do?

Writing Prompt

How Well Do You Perform Under Pressure?