Today's Dippit!
Quote
"I understand there’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy."
Anthony Bourdain
Joke
Five out of four people admit they're bad with fractions!
Fun Fact
If you sneeze while traveling at 60 mph your eyes are closed for an average of 50 feet.
Reading Fact
Harper Lee was an American novelist to the best-known novel"To Kill a Mockingbird".
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Moreover, the novel is notable for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues ofrape and racial inequality. Most noteworthy, the story takes place during the3 years of the Great Depression in the fictional “tired old town” of Maycomb,Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father called Atticus.
History Fact
Chairman Mao Zedong killed 45 million people during China's "Great Leap Forward" from 1958–1962.
Movie/TV Trivia
One cast member of The Exorcist later turned out to be a serial killer
As if The Exorcist wasn’t creepy enough, you might be interested to know that there was a convicted serial killer working on the set of the film. Paul Bateson actually plays an X-Ray technician in the scene where Regan is undergoing a carotid angiography procedure.
He was working as a technician at the New York University Medical Center when the Exorcist producers rolled up to shoot the scene and asked Bateson to appear in front of the camera.
Six years after the movie was released, Bateson was convicted of killing film critic Addison Verrell. We’ll spare you the gruesome details, but he then confessed to killing a number of other gay men in the1970s after he was caught boasting to fellow prisoners about the location of the bodies.
Bateson left a grisly legacy which has only added to the conspiracy theory that The Exorcist was cursed from the very beginning.
Movie/TV Quote
"I am gonna killBill."
KillBill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Conversation Starter
If you could get all your family members to donate to a charity, what would it be and why?
Writing Prompt
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