For us, the world of literature is something that the more open it is, the better, because we like to inquire about new news, unknown data from authors and other relevant data that could well go unnoticed if the word did not spread. site to another.
Days ago I discovered an article that I found very interesting on the Papel en Blanco website. It deals with the least known of the world of literature, that is, things that you probably don't know about the world of letters and art in general. Today I bring you point by point what is described there and I also leave you the original source in case you want to take a look at it.
- Yellow kid, published in 1895, it was the first comic in history. He is the first to use speech bubbles as a way of making characters express themselves.
- The first newspaper in history, the Day Minutes of Rome, published in 59 BC, already contained some news from the heart, that is to say, rumorology about public figures.
- La longest novel in history has 16.000 pages, and its author, Henry darger, it took 7 years to write it. Its titled The Story of the Vivians, in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, about the Gladeco-Angelinian War-Storm caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Discovered after his death, Darger's work has become one of the most outstanding examples of outsider art.
- The longest alphabet is Khmer from Cambodia, with 74 letters.
- El smallest book in the world it is such a small bible that its 300.000 words can fit on a 0,5 millimeter silicon surface. In other words, it would be impossible to read it without a microscope. It was made by Israeli scientists at the Haifa Institute of Technology using beams of particles called gallium ions.
- There are various apocryphal Quixotes. The most famous was published in 1614 under the title: Second volume of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, which contains his third outing and is the fifth part of his adventures. Composed by the lawyer Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, a native of the town of Tordesillas.
- According to Forbes, the best-selling novel is History of two cities, Charles Dickens, with more than 200 million copies. In other articles, however, we have read that the best-selling novel is that of Cervantes: "Don Quijote of La Mancha".
- While its most popular name is Mein Kampf (My fight), the book written by Adolf Hitler its titled "Four years of struggle against stupidity, lies and cowardice ».
- Before the appearance of the printing press, many books had no separation between chapters, nor between paragraphs or words. That included the Bible, which was not previously divided into verses: the first to begin to structure it into chapters was Lanfranc, counselor to William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. The current division is due to stephen langton, professor at the Sorbonne, who managed to impose his new structure in Paris.
- It is believed that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in a speculative way (like a mirror, and from right to left) so as not to run the ink from what was already written, because he was left-handed. And also to encrypt your annotations.
- Frank baum, Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was inspired to baptize that kingdom in a filing cabinet drawer whose alphabetical order label indicated "OZ."
- In 1898, Morgan robertson published futility, a novel that described the sinking of a large ship called the Titan on its maiden voyage from London to New York. 14 years later it became a reality with Titanic.
- According to the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the 5 most used words in Spanish are in this order: “de”, “la”, “que”, “el”, “en”. And the most used noun is “todo”.
Here is the original source where you can read the rest of the "curiosities" of the art world in general.