BOOK FACTS

1. ‘Bibliosmia’ is a word that means enjoyment from smelling good or old books.
2.  The world’s smallest book is ‘Teeny Ted from Turnip Town.’ Its exact measurements
are 70 micrometers x 100 micrometers and the cost to print it on pure crystalline
silicone was $15,000. You almost need a magnifying glass to see it!
3. In 2011, an American man named Ashrita Furman broke the Guinness World
Record for the longest distance walked while balancing a book on his head. He walked
for 5 hours, 9 minutes and 58 seconds straight and covered 20 miles! Pretty impressive.
4. Top 3 most read books in the world are: The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman
Mao Tse-Tung and the Harry Potter series.
5. The first book that was written using the typewriter was The Adventure of  Tom
Sawyer.
6. There are four law books bound in human skin at the Harvard University Library.
7. People say the longest sentence to ever be printed in literature belongs to Victor
Hugo. The claim is that in Les Misérables there is a sentence which is 823 words long.
8. The most expensive book in the world is Codex Leicester by Leonardo Da Vinci. It
was purchased by Bill Gates for 30.8 million dollars.
9. The earliest known written existence of the word ‘book’ is in a book by Alfred the
Great.
10. Lord of the Ring author, J.R.R Tolkien typed the whole trilogy with just two fingers!