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• [Books fact 1]  King David from the Bible offered 200 foreskins for his wife's hand in marriage.

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• [Books fact 2]  In April 2011, two competing algorithms on Amazon.com each kept altering the price that they were selling a book about flies for, based on how much the other was charging. After ten days of price warring, the price of the book had climbed to $23.7 million.

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• [Books fact 3]  J.K. Rowling stated recently that the reason that Vernon Dursley hated the Potters so much was not because they were wizards, but because on a double date with James and Lily, James made him feel stupid and embarrassed. Vernon doesn’t like to be reminded of it, and therefore doesn’t like Harry because of his resemblance to James.

  Books, Fiction, Movies source

• [Books fact 4]  A certain portion of the population will consistently feel the urge to defecate shortly after walking into bookstores or libraries. Named after the otherwise-unheard-of woman whose confession to a Japanese book magazine made it famous, it's known as the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.

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• [Books fact 5]  The collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer, etc.) mostly come from the ‘Book of St. Albans,’ which was published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.

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• [Books fact 6]  The USA first banned a book in 1637. It was the "New English Canaan". The author lampoons and criticizes the Puritans and compares their leadership to crustaceans because Puritans believed that Indians were wild men that needed to be suppressed (among other things). It's been sold at auction for $60,000.

  Books, Countries source

• [Books fact 7]  J.R.R. Tolkien was rejected for a Nobel Prize because of 'poor storytelling'.

  Books, People source

• [Books fact 8]  Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr. Seuss to write a book using no more than 50 different words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham.

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• [Books fact 9]  There is a copy of the Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood which he had commissioned for his 60th birthday. Over the course of 2 years he provided up to 57 pints of his blood to complete the more than 336,000 words that make up the text.

  Books, Religion source

• [Books fact 10]  People who prefer books over TV are more likely to act in a socially acceptable manner. People who prefer watching TV over books come across as less friendly and less understanding of others’ views.

  Books, Misc source

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