Quote
“Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.”
Jimmy Durante
Joke
What washes up on tiny beaches? Microwaves
Fun Fact
“Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.
Reading Fact
Victor Hugo wrote the longest sentence ever printed in the novel Les Miserables.
History Fact
One man survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and then later Nagasaki.
as a 29-year-old Naval Engineer on a three-month business trip to Hiroshima. On August the 6th 1945, the Enola Gay dropped its atomic payload on the city.
Yamaguchi was less than 2 miles from ground zero and was thrown into a potato patch.
He survived the blast and was able to make a perilous journey through the devastated city to the railway station.
Here, on August the 7th, he boarded a train on an overnight ride to his hometown of Nagasaki.
On the morning of August 9th, he was with some colleagues in an office building when another boom split the sound barrier. A flash of white light filled the sky.
Yamaguchi emerged from the wreckage with only minor injuries on top of his current injuries. He had survived two nuclear blasts in two days.
Movie/TV Trivia
In an alternate ending for Alien: Resurrection, Ripley finally makes it back to earth.
Movie/TV Quote
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
The Princess Diaries
While I know this is an Eleanor Roosevelt quote, I first heard it in this film and it completely changed the way I let people talk to me. In fact, it didn't JUST change the way I let others speak to me, it made me feel strong and capable.
Conversation Starter
Do you usually achieve goals you set? Why or why not?
Writing Prompt
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