Mental Floss recalled "when the Beatles wanted to star in a Lord of the Rings movie."
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Dictionary.com's Word of the Year is "intertwined with so many of the things we've experienced in 2021: allyship."
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Better Book Titles featured "30 hilariously bizarre books that actually exist."
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Atlas Obscura explored the Kenneth Dike Library in Ibadan, Nigeria, which houses unusual Arabic manuscripts and was designed to keep the building cool.
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"Stephen Fry on the power of words in Nazi Germany: How dehumanizing language laid the foundation for genocide." (via Open Culture)
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" 'It is surreal': the five-second book reviews going viral on TikTok." (via the Guardian)