Quote
"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."
John Wooden
Joke
It's inappropriate to make a 'dad joke' if you're not a dad. It's a faux pa.
Fun Fact
Children's medicine once contained morphine.
If you were a baby in the middle of the 1800s and you cried while teething, your parents might have given you Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. This "medicine" claimed that "it soothes the child, it softens the gums, [and] allays all pain." It may have done plenty of soothing, but it was also extremely dangerous—this concoction, like many patent medicines of the time, contained morphine.
Reading Fact
Warsaw is the city with the biggest number of libraries per capita – with a whopping 11.5 libraries per 100,000 citizens.
Poland’s capital Warsaw is the ultimate heaven for book lovers. Seoul and Brussels follow close behind, with 11 and 10 libraries per 100,000 inhabitants on average, accordingly. The city that loaned the most books on average was Tokyo, with 111.9 million book loans in just one year.
History Fact
Vlad also enjoyed sopping up his enemies' blood with bread and eating it. This disturbing practice, along with his family name of Dracula and birthplace of Transylvania, inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Movie/TV Trivia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Was Originally the Other Way Around
The original script for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, by William Goldman, was originally titled The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. That all flipped when Paul Newman, maybe the biggest star on the planet at the time of production, took the role of Butch.
Movie/TV Quote
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
The Maltese Falcon, 1941
Conversation Starter
Do you prefer cold weather or hot weather?
Writing Prompt
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