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Samuel Beckett Almost Missed Out on the Nobel
The Swedish Academy keeps their committee notes sealed for fifty years. And that’s how, in 2019, we’re finding out that 1969 Nobel laureate in Literature Samuel Beckett nearly missed the cut.
Choose Your Own Adv—
—nope, not gonna finish that phrase. Because the CYOA people are hella litigious. They’re coming after Netflix in response to the popular Netflix show Bandersnatch.
Name That Animal
Buzzfeed says it takes a genius to fill in the animal blanks in this book title quiz. How soon can I expect my Mensa card in the mail?