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Mar 15 2017
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Books

Fact #1315: There’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare#An_ambiguous_story

Sep 15 2016
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Books

Fact #1188: To make it on a bestseller list, a book needs to be bought only 3,000 times. At times, writers have bought their own books to get their books on the list.

Source: http://www.bookpromotionhub.com/6103/how-many-books-do-you-need-to-sell-to-become-a-bestseller/

Jun 27 2016
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Books, People

Fact #1132: Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” was actually about how television destroys interest in literature, not about censorship.

And, while giving a lecture at UCLA, a class of students told Mr. Bradbury that he was wrong about his own book, upon which he simply walked away.

Source: http://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted-2149125

Mar 07 2016
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Books, Language

Fact #1052: The book “Green Eggs and Ham” contains only 50 unique words.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham#Vocabulary

Dec 09 2015
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Books, History

Fact #993: The alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle#The_Grasshopper_Lies_Heavy

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