1. When you read about yawning, he begin to yawn.
2. In the past, books were put on the shelf "in reverse": the spine to the wall and the front edged out.
3. Studies show that 4-6 years - the most favorable age for teaching a child to read.After 6-7 years to teach reading more difficult.
4. On average, people spend reading of 6.5 hours per week.
5. According to a study at Yale University, three-quarters of students who know how to read poorly in the third grade, will remain the high school.
6. In writing a novel takes an average of about 475 hours.
7. Among the books that have been written or conceived in jail - "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan, "Prison confession" by Oscar Wilde, "The Emperor" Niccolo Machiavelli.
8. Earlier in the library book shelves to engage the chains.
9. The average buyer bookstore holds eight seconds looking at the front cover and 15 seconds, looking back.
10. Half of all books sold today are bought by people over 45 years old.
11. Studies conducted in the US have shown that children who learn to read by third grade are less likely to go to prison, begin to take drugs or not to finish school.
12. Adults who regularly read books, more than two and a half times as prone to engage in volunteer or charity work and more than half inclined to participate in sports activities.
13. Women buy 68% of all books.
14. Most readers will lose interest in the book on page 18.
15. The longest marathon team read aloud lasted 224 hours and was completed by Milton neng, Silvina Carbone, Carlos Antonio, Edith Diaz, Yolanda Baptista and Natalie Dantaz the mall «Mac» in Paysandu, Uruguay, 13-22 September 2007.
16. Books in paperback publishing house «Penguin» were created in order to make the book such as accessible as cigarettes, and the first "pingvinovskie" books in paperback distributed inside the church.
17. It is believed that the annual cost of illiteracy to business and taxpayers $ 20 billion in lost wages, loss of earnings and reduced productivity.
18. Bibliokleptomanom called the man stealing the book.One of the most famous bibliokleptomanov - Stephen Blumberg, who stole more than 23,000 rare books from 268 libraries.To make its collection is estimated at approximately $ 20 million, Bloomberg apply a variety of techniques: sometimes he made his way to the library through the ventilation system, and even the elevator shaft.
19. The term "bookworm" is derived from tiny insects that feed on roots books.
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