Every word nerd knows the rules–seven tiles, no peeking–but did you know that versions of Scrabble exist in Afrikaans, Arabic, Braille, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, and Welsh?
…that it was originally known as Lexico?
…that there are [...]

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-George W. Bush is the first u.s. president to declare himself exempt from over 750 U.S. laws, sidestepping most of the bill of rights including the constitutional requirement that the president follow all laws. Yes, they mentioned it specifically to suppress tyranny.
-Ninety-nine percent of the natural gas used in the United States comes from North [...]

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…the Library of Congress in Washington, DC?  Here’s some stats:
Total of 134,517,714 items in the collections, including:

20,532,692 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system
11,591,309 books in large type and raised characters, incunabula (books printed before 1501), monographs and serials, music, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports, and other printed material
102,393,713 items in the nonclassified [...]

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Ever wonder where the phrase “it’s raining cats and dogs” came from?
If you’ve corrected your child after he or she took this phrase literally, you may owe them a slight apology! The origin of this saying dates back to the 1600s. [...]

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Before Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, everything that anyone wrote was on a long scroll.  Instead of turning the page, you rolled the page.  For reasons that are obvious, Caesar didn’t like this method.
So when he began writing the “Commentarrii de Bello Gallico” (The Gallic Wars), Caesar decided to write it in codex form, which [...]

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…that a new book is published every 3 minutes in the United States?  And every 2.6 minutes in the United Kingdom?
In 2005, 172,000 books were published in the United States, and 206,000 were published in the UK (respectively second and first in the world).   Together, that’s over 378,000 books a year, over 1,000 books a [...]

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