Here are a few more interesting facts to add from my web-dig:
Did you know The Hulk was originally supposed to be gray? And he was in the very first issue of the series The Incredible Hulk in 1962. (Fortunately) Due to the fact that there were major problems with the inconsistency of printing, they had to choose a color instead.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Side note: did anyone watch Tomes & Talismans in middle school? That show single handedly made me love the dewey decimal system.
Similar to the campus joke "we have a swimming pool on the roof" -- for years now, many continue to fuel the tale that their college library sinks a little each year because the architect failed to take into account the weight of the books.
Books that were conceived and/or penned while the author was behind bars:
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Prince by Machiavelli
And because I love me some Dr. Seuss: "If I Ran the Zoo" published in 1950 contains the first recorded instance of the word "nerd".
