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How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World

(via Popular Mechanics) Pencils aren’t just for the SATs. It is the go-to drawing tool of the carpenter and the

(via Today I Found Out) A form of nickname has been around since the early 14th century- eke name, literally meaning

(via Mental Floss) Part of the reason why certain poems can endure for centuries is because the poets themselves are inspired

(via Mental Floss) Punctuation can be a headache, even when it’s just inside a name. Here are eight brand names

(via Mental Floss) Theodor Seuss Geisel—who was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904—wasn’t actually a doctor (at least

(via Oddee) Every writer is a creature of habit. Even the most successful authors have patterns, quirks, superstitions, and beliefs specifically

(via Mental Floss) English number words are pretty logical after a point. From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the same principle applies:

(via All That is Interesting) Researchers discovered ancient texts hidden beneath years of writing in the manuscripts at St. Catherine’s

(via Atlas Obscura) When a fidgeting fourth grader in Miriam Sicherman’s class at Manhattan’s Children’s Workshop School started pulling up

(via Neatorama) Instead of judging works of literature based on their artistic merit, we’ve decided to rank them by degree

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(via History) Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for

(via Atlas Obscura) From late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines and books offered a seemingly endless churn of detective