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    There's a children's book titled "Where Willy Went" detailing the adventures of a sperm.
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    Iceland Has the Most Books Published per Person per Year in the World
    In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.
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    Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.
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    A man with locked-in syndrome, named Jean-Dominique Bauby, wrote an entire book by blinking his left eyelid.
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    Critic Michael Crowley gave such a poor review of one of author Michael Crichton's books that, in his next book, Crichton made a character 'Mick Crowley' who was a child molester with a small penis.
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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    Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work “Principia Mathematica”.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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