"Have yourself a merry little mystery: 12 cozy mysteries fit for the holidays," courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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"Why does Santa Claus say 'Ho Ho Ho?' " Mental Floss investigated.
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Merriam-Webster shared several new additions to the Scrabble Dictionary that will "mean newly playable words in Scrabble."
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John Farmer of Aurora, Colo., won the 40th annual Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest for writing "an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written."