Mental Floss looked up the etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words."
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Author Nikita Lalwani chose her top 10 platonic friendships in fiction for the Guardian.
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Poet Sylvia Plath's "wedding band and other prized possessions" netted $1 million at auction, Forbes noted.
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Open Culture featured "a new digital database that collects seven centuries of art inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy."
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Atlas Obscura checked out Budapest's Szabo Ervin Library, a 19th-century "aristocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library."