Today's Dippit!
Quote
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
Oscar Wilde
Joke
The difference between a numerator and a denominator is a short line. Only a fraction of people will understand this!
Fun Fact
Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.
Reading Fact
The Netflix adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton is the most-watched series in the platform’s history. Over 82 million households have tuned in.
History Fact
They even ate the remains of Egyptian mummies, which tomb raiders risked their lives to steal.
Movie/TV Trivia
One minute of The Nightmare Before Christmas took an entire week to film
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a kid’s classic now, but back in the early 90s when Tim Burton was making the movie, it’s fair to say that special effects definitely weren’t at their peak.
In fact, things moved so slowly that each minute of animated footage took an entire week to film. Wow. It took a group of around100 people almost three years to make the movie – on average each second required 12 stop-motion moves.
It’s no wonder that Tim Burton didn’t want to make a sequel! Disney wanted to make a second movie using computer animation (which would have made things slightly easier), but Burton was having none of it.
“I was always very protective of [Nightmare] not to do sequels or things of that kind,” Burton explained.
“You know, ‘Jack visits Thanksgiving world’ or other kinds of things just because I felt the movie had a purity to it and the people that like it.”
Movie/TV Quote
"You gonna eat your tots?"
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Conversation Starter
What would make you (if parent) most upset? A tattoo, a nose ring or a bad boyfriend/girlfriend?
Writing Prompt
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