Today's Dippit!
Quote
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
Benjamin Franklin
Joke
When the grocery store clerk asks me if I want the milk in a bag, I always tell him, "No, I'd rather drink it out of the carton!"
Fun Fact
Although the TV show “Friends” is based around life in New York City, the entire show was filmed in California.
Reading Fact
Harper Lee was Truman Capote’s assistant when he was writing In Cold Blood. She was in charge of managing his 8,000 pages of notes, and interviewed townspeople who were too suspicious to tell him anything.
History Fact
In the 16th and 17th century wealthy Europeans ate corpses thinking they'd cure them of ailments.
Movie/TV Trivia
Hattie McDaniel nearly missed out on her Oscar due to racial segregation
In 1940, Gone With the Wind actress Hattie McDaniel made film history after she became the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award.
However, she nearly didn’t make it to the ceremony at all thanks to the strict racial segregation which existed in America at that time. Producers had to beg the Academy Awards to let McDaniel attend the ceremony, which was being held in a ‘Whites Only’ hotel.
Eventually they relented and allowed McDaniel into the venue – where she was seated a small table at the rear of the hotel away from her fellow nominees. The actress wasn’t allowed to pose with her fellow Gone With the Wind cast members and was not allowed in to any of the after parties either.
Still, McDaniel was given over a minute for her acceptance speech and sobbed as she stated: “I sincerely hope I will always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.”
Movie/TV Quote
"Hell is a teenage girl."
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Conversation Starter
Who do you count on the most for help?
Writing Prompt
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