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