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There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.

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Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, in which three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth, a man named Richard Parker. In 1884, in the real world, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth, whose name was Richard Parker.

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Dr. Seuss wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.

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One out of every eight letters you see is the letter ‘e’. However, in 1939 an author named Ernest Vincent wrote a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. What’s so strange about that? There is not one ‘e’ in the entire thing.

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  The first novel that was ever written on a typwritter was Tom Sawyer.

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Here are some strange titles of legitimate books.

 How To Cook Husbands – Elizabeth Strong Worthington, 1899

 Do Snakes Have Legs? - Bert Cunningham, 1934

 Teach Yourself Alcoholism – Meier Glatt, 1975

 Lightweight Sandwich Construction – J. M. Davies, 2001

 Bombproof Your Horse - Sgt Rick Pelicano, 2004

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Paper was invented in China around 105 A.D., by the eunuch Ts’ai Lun.

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

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The following words were invented by William Shakespeare: boredom, disgraceful, hurry, hostile, money’s worth, along with obscene. He also invented the words puke, perplex, on purpose, shooting star, as well as sneak.

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Some novels that we know the titles of really well were not he original titles. These are some of the classical ones that the original title changed…for the better.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (“Mag’s Diversions”)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (“Ba! Ba! Black Sheep”)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (“First Impressions”)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (“Incident at West Egg”)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (“All’s Well that Ends Well”) 

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (“Mag’s Diversions”)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (“Ba! Ba! Black Sheep”)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (“John Thomas and Lady Jane”)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (“First Impressions”)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (“Incident at West Egg”)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (“All’s Well that Ends Well”)