Quote
"The secret to living is giving."
Tony Robbins
Joke
The other day, my wife asked me to pass her lipstick but I accidentally passed her a glue stick. She still isn't talking to me.
Fun Fact
In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candyland to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.
Reading Fact
The world's youngest published author is Dorothy Straight, who wrote How The World Began at 4 years old in 1962.
History Fact
In the 1970s Pol Pot's communist regime brainwashed thousands of Cambodian children into becoming soldiers who committed mass murders and other atrocities.
Movie/TV Trivia
Melancholia
During the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film, Lars von Trier responded to a question about the use of Wagner's music, by calling himself a Nazi, and saying that he sympathized with Hitler. Despite apologizing for his remarks, he was banned from the remainder of the festival, and declared a persona non grata by festival organizers, a first in the history of the festival.
Movie/TV Quote
"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."
The Help, 2011
"One of the weirdest places I've seen the line pop up," says writer-director Tate Taylor, "was in a gift shop in Mississippi. It was crocheted toilet-seat cover that said, 'You is kind, you is smart, you is important.' I guess they thought it would be a beautiful place to those words every day."
Conversation Starter
If you had $100, what would you spend it on?
Writing Prompt
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