All about Fun Facts
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This post is for you to share about some fun facts in general including games! You can also just leave your comments/thoughts** about the facts being shared here.
I will start off with top 10 Fun Facts about Book since World Book Day is approaching soon 😊.
1. There are around 130 million published books.
Have you ever wondered how many books have been published?
Although it’s impossible for us to come up with an exact number, according to Google, they believe it is around 130 million books!
All those books definitely won’t be fitting on the book shelf.
2. The most sold book is the Bible.
The Bible is sold all over the world, which makes it the most sold book there is!
At an estimate, there are 5 billion printed copies of it around the world.
Wow!
3. The longest book in the world is ‘Remembrance of Things Past’.
According to Guinness World Records, ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ is the longest book in the world.
It has 9,609,000 characters, including spaces.
It was written by Marcel Proust who was from France, in 1912.
4. The most expensive book in the world is ‘the Codex Leicester’.
The Codex Leicester is the most expensive book in the world.
You’re not going to believe how much it sold for…
The science book sold for 30.8 million dollars in 1994.
It was Leonardo da Vinci’s science diary!
5. The first ever story written was ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’.
It is believed that the first ever book written was ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’.
The story was written in 2100 BCE in the cuneiform script, which is one of the oldest forms of writing.
6. The largest collection consists of 1.5 million books!
According to the Guinness World Records, the largest privately owned collection of books is a massive 1.5 million.
They are owned by John Q. Benham who lives in Indiana in the USA.
He has to keep them in lots of different places because he doesn’t have enough space in his house.
They are in the garage, in his two-storey building and even outside!
7. If you read 20 minutes a day, you would have read 1.8 million words in a year.
All it takes is 20 minutes a day.
If you read for this long every day for a year, then you would have read 1.8 million words.
You will be like a human dictionary!
8. You can read books in lots of different ways including e-books and audiobooks!
There used to be a time where we only had books to read.
Lucky for us, we can access them in lots of different ways now.
Whether it’s online, an e-book or even an audiobook there are lots of ways to access your favourite stories.
9. The person who draws pictures in books is called an illustrator.
Take a look at your books and they will say “Illustrated by…”.
The illustrator is the person who draws all the pictures in the book.
Books don’t always have to have one illustrator, there can be multiple.
If you love art then you might like to work as an illustrator when you are older!
10. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
We need to thank Johannes Gutenberg for the books we have today.
He invented the printing press, which prints words on to paper.
This was in 1440.
It meant that thousands of books could be produced very quickly!
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Since Easter Day was being celebrated recently, here are some facts about Easter.
- Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the Christian religion.
- Eggs have been seen as ancient symbol of fertility, while springtime is considered to bring new life and rebirth.
- Americans spend $1.9 billion on Easter candy. That’s the second biggest candy holiday after Halloween.
- 70% of Easter candy purchased is chocolate.
- 76% of Americans think the ears of a chocolate bunny should be the first to be eaten.
- Egg dyes were once made out of natural items such as onion peels, tree bark, flower petals, and juices.
- There’s much debate about the practice of dyeing chicks. Many hatcheries no longer participate, but others say that it isn’t dangerous to the chick’s health because the dye only lasts until the chicks shed their fluff and grow their feathers.
- The first story of a rabbit (later named the “Easter Bunny”) hiding eggs in a garden was published in 1680.
- Easter takes place on a Sunday, after the 40-day period called Lent. Lent is referred to as a time of fasting, but participants focus more on giving up one significant indulgence.
- Holy Week is the celebrated during the week leading up to Easter. It begins on Palm Sunday, continues on to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and then finally, Easter Sunday.
- “The White House Easter Egg Roll” event has been celebrated by the President of the United States and their families since 1878.
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Wow! Brilliant! Thank you for your sharing amazing fun facts! @wykoon 📔💡😄
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You're welcome @LeFlarcane 😊😊
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thank you for the very interesting facts on books and on easter. very enjoyable read.
I love reading. I have 8 bookcases full of books. My wife thinks i am the world record holder of books, but now i can tell her i am nowwhere near the record holder!
Amazing to see how much candy is eaten at easter time! 1.9 billion dollars is a lot of money/candy!
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Thanks for sharing these interesting fun facts @wykoon .
thanks for the tag @Diamond_Lim
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@ashfordgooner, that's a huge collection of books you have there. Amazing to know how much you read. Thanks for sharing. 😊
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i had a job, where approx 3 weeks a month, i was abroad living in hotels. so i used to buy 2 books each time. for something to do in the evenings. Sometimes it was quite hard living in a hotel, on your own, and a book passed the time. Work passed the daytimes.
So now on holidays, i take a kindle, and love to read a book a day, lazing in the sun. i prefer books to films, makes my imagination work a lot more. I think it is quite sad that books go for 1p on amazon. i think it is great to walk into someones lounge, and see a bookcase. you learn a lot about the person. So much more interesting than seeing a kindle on the shelf! But maybe i am just an old git.... :)
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That's good to know that you are an avid reader. I wasn't really into books but I do like to read a couple of good ones 😅😅😅. After reading your comment, I think I will force myself to start reading again. I agree that reading stimulate our thinking more than watching movie cos reading is like "talking to yourself" (when read quietly), thus, the info seeps in deeper.
Hahah, old git = wise man 😆👍👍
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