There’s a book in the Harvard University library that’s bound in human skin? It’s called Des destinees de l’ame, and it’s an example of a practice known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. The book was reportedly bound in the 19th century using the skin of an unclaimed female patient who died of natural causes.
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Did you know that the world’s smallest book is so tiny that it requires a microscope to read? Titled “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town,” it measures just 0.07 by 0.10 millimeters and was created using a focused ion beam to carve the pages into crystalline silicon. This microscopic masterpiece was produced by scientists at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
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Did you know the longest novel ever written is “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust? It’s so long that if you read it aloud, you’d be talking for over 80 hours straight!
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