How many plays did Shakespeare write?
William Shakespeare wrote about 37 to 39 plays, depending on how collaborations are counted, along with 154 sonnets.
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- Who invented the detective story?
“Edgar Allan Poe is considered the father of the detective story, starting with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841.”
Reference: Poe Museum
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Did Dickens's pet raven inspire Poe?
Charles Dickens's pet raven, Grip, is believed to have inspired Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," and the stuffed bird is now at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
What is the "loneliest whale"?
The "52-hertz whale" is an unidentified whale that calls at an unusually high frequency other whales may not respond to, which earned it the nickname "the loneliest whale in the world."