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10 Facts About George Orwell’s Animal Farm

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(via Mental Floss) On August 17, 1945, legendary British author George Orwell—who also penned 1984—published Animal Farm, a satirical allegory

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(via Listverse) Figures from 2019, show that adults in the US spend an average of 3 hours 35 minutes watching

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(via Amusing Planet) Euclid’s Elements, first published in 300 BC, was one of the most important and influential textbooks ever

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(via Mental Floss) If there’s one thing that unites philosophers, writers, politicians, and scientists across time and distance, it’s the

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(via Mental Floss) To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York Public Library’s opening in 1895, a team of

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(via Smithsonian) The beloved story sold 6,000 copies in its first week in print and 15,000 in its first year.

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(via Mental Floss) In 1909, the English novelist and writer James Redding Ware published a dictionary of 19th-century slang and

(via Mental Floss) Ever since it was introduced in 1985, Pictionary has been a party game that requires artistic ambition

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(via Mental Floss) For jotting down notes, sketching elaborate monster rampages over cities, or just capturing your thoughts, people love

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(via Mental Floss) So what’s the actual difference between comic books and graphic novels? Are these terms interchangeable, or does

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(via Great Big Story) Ariell Johnson doesn’t wear a cape. But to many comic book fans and artists, she’s a

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(via Mental Floss) What do we do when an author dies with their work unfinished? Do we let it molder