1. Most expensive book ever purchased:<\/h2>\n

Everyone\u2019s favorite billionaire Bill Gates bought \u2018Codex Leicester\u2019, one of Leonardo Di Vinci\u2019s scientific journals for $30.8 million.<\/p>\n

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2. Longest book in the world:<\/h2>\n

\u2018A\u00a0la recherche du temps perdu\u2019\u00a0<\/em>by Marcel Proust is the longest book in the world at 9,609,000 characters. Translated into Remembers of Things Past, the book tells the story of the narrator\u2019s experiences growing up.<\/p>\n

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3. Roald Dahl\u2019s interesting life experiences:<\/h2>\n

Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and also tested chocolates for Cadbury\u2019s while he was at school. (I guess we know where his inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came from).<\/p>\n

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5. Victor Hugo\u2019s 823 word long sentence:<\/h2>\n

In Victor Hugo\u2019s novel, Les Miserables, you can find a sentence that is 823 words long. However, there may be other sentences that surpasses this length. But this one is worth knowing.<\/p>\n

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6. J.K. Rowling is not actually her name:<\/h2>\n

Our favorite author who goes by initials, actually doesn’t have a middle name. After a suggestion from her publisher, she chose her grandmother\u2019s name, Kathleen.<\/p>\n

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7. Charles Dickens\u2019 superstitious behaviour:<\/h2>\n

Dickens believed that sleeping facing North, would improve his writing. He also carried a compass when travelling to make sure he was facing the right direction and he always touched things 3 times for luck.<\/p>\n

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8. Tolstoy owes War and Peace to his wife\u2019s efforts:<\/h2>\n

The 1400 page novel was copied around 7 times by Leo Tolstoy\u2019s wife, Sophia, by hand \u2013 that\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

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9. The words F. Scott Fitzgerald created that you use everyday:<\/h2>\n

Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest use of the word \u2018wicked\u2019 to mean good\/cool to be from Fitzgerald\u2019s novel \u2018This Side of Paradise\u2019. He is also thought to have used the word T-shirt for the first time.<\/p>\n

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10. The children\u2019s story that China banned:<\/h2>\n

The Governor of Hunan Province in China banned Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland because he believed that animals should not be given the power to use the language of humans and to put animals and humans on the same level would be \u2018disastrous\u2019.<\/p>\n

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