Harvard University Library has four books bound in human
skin.
Iceland tops the world in per capita book reading.
People who read books are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s.
In Brazilian prisons, reading a book can reduce a prisoner's
sentence by four days.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
The most stolen book is the Bible.
Teddy Roosevelt read an average of one book per day.
There are over 20,000 books about chess.
Victor Hugo’s "Les Misérables" contains a sentence
with 823 words.
Words like "hurry" and "addiction" may
have been invented by Shakespeare.
If all the books in the New York Public Library were lined
up, they’d stretch eight miles.
Leo Tolstoy's wife hand-copied the manuscript of "War
and Peace" seven times.
Noah Webster took 36 years to write his first dictionary.
The Mahabharata is the only book in the world with over
1,200 characters
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