Interesting facts about books
Books give us strength and inspiration. They fascinate us, make us laugh and cry, and ask us questions that are worth thinking about. Books help us find ourselves, understand others, and relieve loneliness. A book is a real magician. How many amazing secrets are revealed to us through books!
Interesting facts:
- People started reading silently only in the 4th century AD. Before that, humanity had always read aloud.
- The oldest printed color book is a Chinese guide to calligraphy and drawing, created in 1633.
- The world’s largest book was published in 1832 in London. It is called the Pantheon of English Heroes and is 5.7 meters long. The size of the letters in this book is 15 cm.
- The smallest book ever published is Goosebumps, published in 1980 in Japan, measuring 1.4 by 1.4 cm.
- The world’s thickest book is an English dictionary with 8600 pages.
- An unusual Bible can be seen by visitors to the State Museum of Art in Georgia. An ancient master carved 20 stories from the Old and New Testaments on heavy stone slabs. This Bible exists in one copy, its stone pages were found in the highland village of Tsebelda.
- The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius paid the poet Oppian a gold coin for each line he wrote. Oppian wrote two poems about fishing and hunting, earning twenty thousand coins.
- If you read 10 pages every day, you will have read 3650 pages in a year, which is at least 12 books.
- 33% of Americans have not read a single book since graduating from high school. Although there are 7 times more libraries in the United States than McDonald’s.
- US President Theodore Roosevelt read one book a day, and David Bowie read 3-4 books a week.
- In English, there is a separate term for the smell of books – bibliosmia. And the fear that you will have nothing left to read is called abibliophobia.
- “The German Dictionary is considered the largest in the world. The Grimm brothers began compiling it in 1854, then other, lesser-known authors continued the work, and the work was completed only in 1971. The dictionary has 34519 pages and is published in 33 volumes.