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Dumb English major trying to reinvent himself as a coder.

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Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey?
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Since when has Shakespeare's "Scottish play" been considered unlucky?
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Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?
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Jordan's line about intimate parties in The Great Gatsby?
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Was Paradise Lost the first major work of literature to give "sympathy for the devil"?
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Did Philip Larkin use a swearword while quoting from Pym's Excellent Women?
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No mayonnaise in Ireland?
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When and why did "No man is an island" start being regarded as a poem?
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