Today's Dippit!

Quote

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." 

Tony Robbins

Joke

What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator!

Fun Fact

The longest fingernails ever were over 28 feet in total. American Lee Redmond started growing them in 1979 and set the record in 2008. Sadly, she lost her nails in a car crash in 2009.

Reading Fact

The word library comes from Latin liber – the inner bark of trees – and was first used in written form in the 14th century.

In Old English – the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in the early Middle Ages – “book hoards” (from Old English bōchord) were what we know as libraries or collections of books today. 

History Fact

The ancient Egyptians have given us a plethora of cultural behemoths, from the Great Pyramids to the Sphinx to the Rosetta Stone. Still, you can’t get everything right, and these same peoples also thought that the brain’s primary function was the production of mucus.

Movie/TV Trivia

Blade Runner 2049

A visual effects company worked for a full year on the scene where Rachael (Sean Young) appears exactly as she did 35 years ago in Blade Runner (1982). Stand-in actress Loren Peta acted out the scene, and her appearance was changed through computer-generated visual effects to resemble Young.

Movie/TV Quote

"I'm king of the world!" 

Titanic, 1997

Conversation Starter

What did you want to be growing up?

Writing Prompt

What Music Inspires You?