Today's Dippit!

Quote

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you." 

Richard Branson

Joke

Did you hear about the italian chef that died? He pasta way.

Fun Fact

For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.

Almost nothing is known about Sandy Island, a land mass about the size of Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia. Supposedly, explorer James Cook discovered it in 1774, and it began appearing on nautical maps in 1908. It wasn't until 2012, when a team of Australian scientists set out to survey the island, that they discovered there was no island there at all. The scientists guessed that Cook may have in fact spotted a "pumice raft" of floating volcanic stone and gas. The Sydney Morning Herald even published an obituary for Sandy Island.

Reading Fact

Reading captions, labels, and signs in the environment helps reinforce literacy skills and promotes real-world application of reading abilities.

History Fact

Can’t Take it With You

Dentures: what would old people and hockey players do without them? Well, until the mid-1800s, dentures, aesthetically pleasing as they may be, were actually often made of teeth pulled from deceased soldiers. Hey, they’re not using them, right?

Movie/TV Trivia

The iconic body and hand in the poster for American Beauty belong to actress/model Chloe Hunter, not Mena Suvari.

Movie/TV Quote

"You had my curiosity. But now you have my attention."

Django Unchained (2012)

In the second of his revisionist history films, Quentin Tarantino is in peak form, dishing out fantasy justice to abominable characters like Leonardo DiCaprio's Calvin J. Candie, a smooth-talking slave-owner with a passion for phrenology. Candie's gleeful hatred -- covered with a slimy veneer of Southern manners -- puts the efficiency of Tarantino's character development on full display. The slave-owner is the quintessential talentless, overconfident man who believes himself far superior to a foreigner and a free slave, despite all evidence to the contrary. As he takes a childish slurp out of a coconut filled with booze, DiCaprio delivers the film's best line with the kind of uncomfortable familiarity and condescension that make the final act's revenge fantasy fully earned. It's the kind of line you could imagine a venture capitalist or similar vampire uttering today; we thankfully no longer sell humans as commodities, but the sickening nature of business sharks remains.

Conversation Starter

When you die, what do you want to be reincarnated as?

Writing Prompt

Do You Have a Life Calling?