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This fact is a little sad. In the western world, we take for granted our education system and sometimes forget about the people in the less privileged parts of the world.

This fact has lead us on to find out about School Aid. They are a charity providing sustainable literacy development for children and young people in Africa. If you have a spare few minutes give their website a read.

We love this fact. Being sustainable is a massive part of our day-to-day lives and being able to make up to 50 books from one tree is fantastic especially with printing companies using fully sustainable paper. Also a new movement on youtube is trying to plant 20 million trees.

The M6 toll road is in Birmingham, UK. It is 26 miles of a 6 lane motorway. 2.5 million copies of Mills and Boon novels were acquired and then pulped at a recycling firm in South Wales, UK. They were used in the top layer of the motorway.

We have a feeling it’s probably a run-on, but it’s a legit sentence that exists in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, according to Barnes and Noble.

The covers of the first printed books were considered artworks. They were covered in drawings, leather and even gold — so there wasn’t a place for the author’s name.

According to Guinness World Records, ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ is the longest book in the world.

It has 9,609,000 characters, including spaces.

It was written by Marcel Proust who was from France, in 1912.

The Codex Leicester is the most expensive book in the world.

You’re not going to believe how much it sold for…

The science book sold for 30.8 million dollars in 1994.

It was Leonardo da Vinci’s science diary!

Apples are more effective than coffee at waking you up in the morning.

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