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“I told the Taliban that the class was only about educating street children,” [Nazhand told BuzzFeed News](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/syedzabiullah/afghanistan-taliban-secret-school-girls). “Women or adult girls were coming only for religious education, not for school subjects.”  
Now, the 21-year-old Kabul native is teaching science and English courses to more than 100 girls beyond sixth grade.

**Religious lessons**

It's been over a year since the Taliban banned girls' education beyond sixth grade. During that time, Sodaba Nazhand founded a secret school under the guise that she was teaching what to young children?

In honor of Eugenia Duke — the creator of Duke's mayo who allegedly made 10,000 sandwiches in a single day in 1918 — over 300 volunteers gathered to assemble [10,000 sandwiches](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/17/dukes-mayonnaise-sandwiches-greenville-thanksgiving/) for local food pantries, homeless shelters, and schools, the Washington Post reports.

**Duke's mayo**

Volunteers in Greenville, South Carolina, banded together to make 10,000 sandwiches for charity using what special ingredient?

The _Renaissance_ artist now has 88 total [Grammy](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/grammy-nominations-nominees-2023) nominations.

**Beyoncé**

With the 2023 Grammy nominations, this artist tied Jay-Z for the most Grammy nominations of all time. Who is she?

Newly added words include deadname, fintech, subtweet, bae, vibing, fauxhawk, convo, kharif, slushee, hygge, and welp, [AP reports](https://apnews.com/article/scrabble-dictionary-new-words-2effc5627acb3974388b092ebc556cdb).

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Scrabble added about 500 new words to its official dictionary. Which of the following is not a newly added word?

"There was never a method to the madness. I would just copy memes into the doc whenever I saw them," meme archivist [Nathan Allebach told BuzzFeed News](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/twitter-meme-google-doc).  
"Shoutout to all the brilliant people who create these meme formats and rarely ever get the credit they deserve! It's easy to piggyback off existing content, but original content creators are the backbone of the meme economy."

**105**

He documented every Twitter meme since 2019. How many pages is the Google Doc archive?

An [Animal Cognition](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01674-w) study found that cats will listen to their owners "cat-directed speech" (similar to how people talk to babies). This cat-directed speech is less effective when someone other than their owners uses it.  
“A growing body of work supports the idea that social interaction with humans is key in the life of a cat,” animal behavior expert Kristyn Vitale [told the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/science/cat-talking-owners-voice-dog.html).

**Cats pay attention, but mainly if you use a high-pitched "cat voice"**

A new research study looks into whether cats listen to their human owners talking to them. What did they find?

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