Today is Friday, April 19, 2024.

That means that today is day number 110 of the year or 255 days before the end of the year.

Today's Wise Thought From a Famous Person is:
(Number 211 out of 731)

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1861, essayist)

Today's Quotation Without Comment is:
(Number 142 out of 491)

“I have come to doubt whether there is any such thing as a brilliant professor. Most of my colleagues are merely the ruins of what were once promising students.”
—Anonymous Professor

Today's Made-Up Proverb is:
(Number 89 out of 310)

“If you don’t want your vote to be manipulated by special interests, then don’t vote the way your television tells you to.”
— Anonymous Maxim-Maker

Today's First Provocative International Factoid is:
(Number 108 out of 373)

Private firearms are legal in Mexico, but heavily regulated. (The country has only one legal gun shop, located on a military base. Each day the shop sells 38 firearms to civilians. Also each day an average of 580 firearms (94%) are smuggled into Mexico from the United States.

Today's Second Provocative International Factoid is:
(Number 147 out of 508)

The world’s largest single Christian congregation is the Full Gospel Central Church in Seoul, Korea, which has more than half a million members. (2002-01-01)

Today's First Provocative U.S. Factoid is:
(Number 121 out of 418)

In 2015 a scandal broke out over high lead levels in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, which left nearly 11% of the city’s children with blood-lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter. In the 1970s, however, 88% of all American children had blood-lead levels above 10 micrograms per deciliter.

Today's Second Provocative U.S. Factoid is:
(Number 169 out of 583)

The periodic “Summit of the Americas” brings together heads of state from all, or nearly all, of the nations of the Americas, and usually issues a final declaration. Typically the U.S. has refused to sign such declarations, since they inevitably condemned the American economic embargo of Cuba. With the 2015 thawing of relations with Cuba, the U.S. refused to sign because the declaration demanded an end to electronic spying and the recognition of health care access as a human right.

Today's Pretentiously Literate Foreign-Language Quote is:
(Number 73 out of 254)

“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”
[Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.]
—Cicero (106-43)

Today's Folksy But Profound Chinese Proverb is:
(Number 43 out of 151)

八字衙门朝南开，有理无钱莫进来。
(Bā zì yá mén cháo nán kāi, yǒu lǐ wú qián mò jìn lái.)
"The gate of the magistrate’s court is open wide, but if you have only right and not money on your side, don’t enter it."

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