13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
(via Mental Floss) Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses,
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8 Trade Routes That Shaped World History
(via Mental Floss) Trade routes have popped up throughout ancient history, stitching places of production to places of commerce. Scarce
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21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You’re Quoting William Shakespeare
(via Mental Floss) William Shakespeare devised new words and countless plot tropes that still appear in everyday life. Famous quotes
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51 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
(via Mental Floss) Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here’s a bunch of foreign
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10 Everyday Words Whose Meanings No One Can Agree On
(via Listverse) Words can be tricky. Just ask Alanis Morissette or any of the five billion people who misuse “literally”
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The Infamous “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke
(via Smithsonian) On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the U.S. heard a report of mysterious creatures
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30 Words and Phrases from Victorian Theatrical Slang
(via Mental Floss) In 1909, the English novelist and writer James Redding Ware published a dictionary of 19th-century slang and
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100 Words Turning 100 This Year
(via Mental Floss) The word cake is about 800 years old, and you’re gonna want to make some for these
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The First Personality Test Was Developed During World War I
(via Smithsonian) Long before online quizzes and Myers-Briggs, Robert Woodworth’s “Psychoneurotic Inventory” tried to assess recruits’ susceptibility to shell shock.
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7 Illustrative Facts About Pictionary
(via Mental Floss) Ever since it was introduced in 1985, Pictionary has been a party game that requires artistic ambition
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The most complex word in English only has three letters
(via Considerable) Three letters. Over 600 meanings.
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9 Lost Words We Should Bring Back
(via Mental Floss) History is full of obscure words that were once oft-used but have since been lost to time,
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