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Thu, Oct 06 2011 11:41:50

Book Facts

Facts about books

  1. WstonesOxfordSt
    #bookfacts If you took every book in our store and laid them end to end you would be thrown out by security and banned from returning.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:17:58
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    #bookfacts Proust invented Twitter but abandoned it in frustration after only one sentence. /via @shoottheducks
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 09:53:19
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    #bookfacts Before colour printers, book covers were visually created for each customer by means of interpretive dance. /via @sefasaurus_rex
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 08:49:20
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    #bookfacts Ovid's Metamorphoses was the original inspiration for 80s cartoon hit Transformers. /via @abandinhope
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 07:25:11
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    #bookfacts If you say Charles Dickens' name three times into an open copy of Great Expectations he will suddenly appear and kill you.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 06:47:53
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    #bookfacts If you multiply any book over 317 pages with the speed of sound, you get Denzel Washington. /via @Ferg_Slade.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 06:22:46
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    #bookfacts If you read Moby-Dick backwards very slowly, it says 'Paul is dead.' /via @JudithFlanders
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 05:56:39
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    #bookfacts Before the invention of the printing press, print was sneezed on to books by specially-bred monks. /via @klave
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 05:37:57
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    Books are 11 dimensional fractals. If magnified, you will see an infinite number of 11 dimensional books. /via @santaevita
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 05:18:36
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    #bookfacts The first book was created when an origami model of a multi-storey car park collapsed under its own weight. /via @kristian444
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 05:17:29
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    #bookfacts If you correctly guess the ending after reading the first line, the author has to give you 5% of the royalties. /via @liz545
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Fri, Sep 02 2011 05:15:06
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    #bookfacts To avoid bad luck all books since 1752 have been published without a page 13. /via @ppchalker
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 14:01:33
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    #bookfacts It is dangerous, but not impossible, to print a book in Spanish. /via @NorwayBilly
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 11:52:46
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    #bookfacts The pen is mightier than the sword but the stored energy in an average novel is equivalent to 5 nuclear bombs /via @shoottheducks
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 11:17:47
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    #bookfacts Until the advent of miniaturisation technology in the 1950s, books were 100ft tall and weighed over 50 tons. /via @isitbedtimeyet
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:44:22
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    #bookfacts The word 'book' comes from the Saxon word 'book' meaning 'book' /via @hippy_jon
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:27:06
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    #bookfacts If everyone in China turned the page at the same time, the world would get knocked off its axis. /via @inkstainsclaire
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:16:13
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    #bookfacts Contrary to popular belief, no book has ever contained more than 89 pages. /via @macington
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:08:31
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    #bookfacts 'Book' is short for 'Booker', hence the 'Man Booker Prize', which is for men. /via @kristian444
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 10:07:47
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    #bookfacts The world's largest personal book collection belonged to Mark Twain who, at the time of his death, owned 12 books.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 09:48:42
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    #bookfacts The book was invented when the Earl of Sandwich became hungry in a stationers.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Sat, Aug 27 2011 09:41:31
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    #bookfacts When a book reaches the 100th anniversary of its publication, the Queen is obliged to read and review it for the TLS.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Mon, Sep 12 2011 15:50:35
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    #bookfacts Most books you see nowadays will be domesticated but you can still find wild books living in certain parts of Greece.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Mon, Sep 12 2011 16:06:30
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    #bookfacts Every time Arsene Wenger reads an Agatha Christie novel an opposing manager rips out the last chapter before he can read it.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Tue, Sep 13 2011 16:33:33
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    #bookfacts Dan Brown is the pen-name of Anton Ferdinand. 'The lads laugh but it's something I love,' says the QPR defender.
    WstonesOxfordSt
    Mon, Sep 12 2011 16:11:24
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