6 Interesting Facts about Books

1. A new book is published every 13 minutes in the United States.
2. The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, or 810,697 words.
3. There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.
4. Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book “Historia de duobos amantibus” in 1444.
5. The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA contains 28 million books and has 532 miles of shelving.
6. Paper was invented in China around 105 A.D., by the eunuch Ts’ai Lun.