Open Mic FRIDAY 19th JUNE 2026
FACT OF THE DAY: Astronauts can grow up to 5 cm (2 inches) taller in space because the lack of gravity decompresses the discs in their spines.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
― Thomas Jefferson
POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
Trump calls it peace now
After the long fire crossed seas
The waves changed nothing
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