Random Fact: Books
The first novel written on a typewriter is said to be Mark Twain’s Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
The first book described as a “best-seller” was Fools Of Nature by US writer Alice Brown in 1889.
The Harry Potter books are said to be the most banned in America because of religious complaints, while the slowest-selling book is reputedly a 1716 translation of the New Testament from Coptic into Latin. The last of its 500 copies was sold in 1907.
The record for most people balancing books on their heads at the same place and time is 998 in Sydney, Australia, in 2012.
One in five adults around the world cannot read or write, with the highest rates in South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Oh, I love books. The best companions I had in childhood. Tom Sawyer and Hucklberry Finn just brilliant!
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I’ve never actually read those two!
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They’re easy to read, very funny but at the same time pretty sad as it concerns the slavery at the time.
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Sounds like two more books to add to my ‘to be read’ pile 🙂
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Interesting facts. I had no idea that illiteracy is still so high. That’s really sad.
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It is, isn’t it? 😦
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