A strong foundation is important, and no foundation is stronger than one made of brick. Here are some brickbits (tidbits about bricks):

• A brick is made of hundreds of thin, ceramic rectangles stacked on top of each other, so as long as you have hundreds of thin, ceramic rectangles laying around, you can easily make a brick.
  

• Someone who misses a lot of basketball shots is called a "bricklayer" because a bricklayer is a hard profession and it's incredibly easy to make basketball shots.
  

• Bricks sink in water, unless the water is frozen or the brick is really just a clump of human hair.
  

• If you say "brick" really quickly, someone might not understand you at first and you'll have to say it again. If you don't say it again, you really missed an opportunity to discuss bricks and impress the other person with one of the brickhits (hard-hitting brick facts) that you learned here today.