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5 Things I Learned That I Can’t Stop Thinking About

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance novel that spawned a twenty-episode TV series and a stage musical.

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One of the strangest footnotes of Saddam Hussein’s rule over Iraq had nothing to do with tanks, palaces, or politics. In 2000, the Iraqi dictator secretly published a romance novel titled Zabiba and the King. At first glance, it appeared to be a simple love story between a powerful king and a common woman named Zabiba. But readers quickly recognized that the novel was packed with political symbolism. The king represented Saddam himself, while Zabiba symbolized the Iraqi people. Their enemies stood in for foreign powers and political rivals.

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17 People Reveal The Things About Their Friends That Keeps Them Perpetually Single

Everyone knows someone who seems like a great catch on paper but somehow remains perpetually single. Maybe they’re attractive, successful, funny, or genuinely kind. Yet year after year, relationship after relationship, nothing seems to stick.

When a Reddit user asked people to reveal the thing about their friends that keeps them perpetually single, thousands of users chimed in with surprisingly candid answers. Some responses were funny, others were brutal, and quite a few were genuinely insightful.

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soluble

adj.

able to dissolve

“The plot of the spy film revolved around an untraceable and water-soluble poison.”

This Movie Quiz Will Separate the Casuals From the Cinephiles

Anyone can rattle off the plot of “The Godfather.” This quiz is for the people who know who shot it, who cut it, and which Soviet montage theorist the climax owes a debt to.

Ten questions on the deeper end of film — directors, movements, craft, and the canon that actual cinephiles argue about. No “name the superhero” gimmes here.

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Most People Can’t Get 7/10 on This World History Quiz

We all sat through years of history class. Whether any of it stuck is another question entirely, which is exactly what this quiz is here to find out.

Ten questions, from ancient Rome to Napoleon’s last stand, with a few empires and revolutions in between. Nothing absurdly obscure, but nothing you can coast through either.

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