William S. Burroughs is considered a controversial writer. He was a writer from the ‘Beat’ generation who tapped into postmodernist themes. He is most famous for his novel Naked Lunch, which has been on some lists of banned books since it was published in 1959.

Angelina Jolie has a huge family – she has six children! She has the geographical coordinates of each child’s birthplace tattooed on her arm. She is also a UN goodwill ambassador and devotes a lot of her time towards charitable work. When her twins were born in 2008 the first pictures of them were sold to People magazine for a whopping $14 million dollars! The money was donated to Jolie’s charitable foundation.

Have you heard of the ampersand? You probably haven’t yet you certainly know what it is! The ampersand is the ‘&’ symbol and has been around since the time of Ancient Rome. When Roman scribes wrote ‘et’ they would join up the ‘e’ and the ‘t’ making the ‘&’ symbol. In fact, the ampersand used to be part of the English alphabet. Schoolchildren in the 1800s recited the alphabet adding ‘&’ as the 27th letter after ‘Z’.