My odd areas of knowledge:
- Hindu stuff: Mahabharata
- translations of Spanish poetry and songs: Alma Llanera, La Bamba
- Zulu stuff: assegai, impi, Umslopogaas
- Icelandic sagas: Vinland
- Chinese literature
- Canadian fur trappers
- Venezuelan trivia: llanero
- Feminist science fiction
- Word definitions with a little extra depth: necrophagous, picaresque, semantic satiation