g889551512, 1 июля 2014 г., 4:15
If you like reading, then these facts will amaze you. 1. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter e. 2. In 1939 an author named Ernest Vincent wrote a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. The only thing unusual about the novel is that there is not a single letter e in the whole thing. 3. There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess. 4. Perhaps the most uninteresting book ever written is the calculation of pi to two million places, in 800 pages. Just think of the TV special that could be made from this script. 5. In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo there is one sentence that is 823 words long. When Vic wrote to his editor inquiring about their opinion of the manuscript, he wrote, "?" They answered, "!" 6. If you stretched out all the shelves in the New York Public Library, they would extend eighty miles. The books most often requested at this library are about drugs, witchcraft, astrology and Shakespeare. 7. Interestingly, William Shakespeare invented the word "hurry." 8. Speaking of Shakespeare, can you imagine John Wayne reciting Shakespeare? Well, he did one time, and won a Shakespeare contest. 9. The following words were invented by William Shakespeare: boredom, disgraceful, hostile, money's worth, obscene, puke, perplex, on purpose, shooting star, sneak. Until this time, people had to have their conversations without these words. 10. In America, we buy 57 books per second. It would take a shelf 78 miles long to hold all of one day's books. 11. More than two and a half billion Bibles have been made. If you put them on a long bookshelf and started driving along the shelf at 55 mph, you would have to drive 40 hours per week for over four months to get to the end. All these Bibles would fill the New York public library 467 and a half times. Source:ideasofindian.blogspot.nl/2008/05/some-interesting-facts-about-books-and.html?m=1
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