Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Although Felice Hoffman is primarily known as a novelist, she has released three books of poetry over her career, and to much critical acclaim at that.
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Have you ever heard of Laika, the first dog to go into space? Well, it turns out that this pup shares a lot in common with the boys of The Wild Children—like them, he spent many years wandering the streets of Moscow without a home to his name.
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Because they don't give a hoot about copyright laws, the Soviets released their own unofficial film adaptation of The Hobbit in 1985 and it is hilariously bad.
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