Quote
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
Thomas Watson
Joke
So a vowel saves another vowel's life. The other vowel says, "Aye E! I owe you!"
Fun Fact
The Canary Islands are named after dogs, not birds.
It might seem safe to assume that the Canary Islands were named after canary birds, but the location was actually named after dogs. Although it's off the coast of northwestern Africa, the archipelago is actually part of Spain. In Spanish, the area's name is Islas Canarias, which comes from the Latin phrase Canariae Insulae for "island of dogs." World facts related to dogs? Now those we can get behind!
History Fact
Thomas Edison didn’t invent most of the stuff he patented.
It’s fair to say that Edison was one of the world’s most notorious intellectual property thieves.
Of the 1,093 things he smashed a patent on, he stole near enough most of them off real geniuses like Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Rontgen and Joseph Swan – the latter of whom originally invented the lightbulb!
Movie/TV Trivia
In Harry Potter, Alan Rickman was the only person other than J.K. Rowling to know Snape was defending harry because he was in love with Lily Potter to make his performance genuine.
Movie/TV Quote
"I don't want to survive, I want to live!"
Wall-E
Conversation Starter
What is your guilty pleasure?
Writing Prompt