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3. Before he was melting hearts as Ross Poldark, Aidan Turner spent a decade competing in ballroom dancing competitions.

"The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass."

Oscar Wilde, who was famous for his wit, once advised: "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

At first glance, a dictionary seems pretty straightforward: Words are listed alphabetically, and you simply locate the right page and scan until you find the word you’re looking for. But there’s a lot you might not know about these essential reference too

New research confirms that people who grow up with books at home tend to have higher reading comprehension and better mathematical and digital communication skills.

You would never know from his books that Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine used to write joke books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine

Show off your love of reading.

Walt Disney's Disneyland provides an inside look at how the iconic theme park came to be.

3. The Nagini film theory is incorrect.

Celebrate Banned Books Week by giving these once-censored classics a read.

“Cut out all these exclamation points," F. Scott Fizgerald once said. "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

The answer might surprise you.