Did you know?

As you may all know, March is National Reading Month. In honor of this scholarly holiday, here are a few fun facts about books.

1. One out of every eight letters you read is a letter 'e'
2. The have been 20,000 books written on chess
3. William Shakespeare coined the word 'hurry'
4. 57 books are bought per second in America
5. It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary
6. Charles Dickens had to be facing North before writing a word
7. In the library of Congress, there are 72,466,926 books
8. 125 new titles are published every day in American
9. There is such thing as abibliophobia; the fear of running out of things to read
10. The word 'nerd' was first seen in Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the Zoo"

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