1. Ian Fleming's James Bond debuted in the novel 'Casino Royale' in 1952.
2. The world's best-selling book is the Holy Bible.
3. Greek philosopher Aristotle write Meteorologica in 350 B.C. - it remained the standard textbook on weather for 2,000 years.
4. Barbara Cartland completed a novel every two weeks, publishing 723 novels.
5. In 1961, a Matisse masterpiece titled 'The Boat' hung upside-down in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 2 months. None of the 116,000 visitors who admired the painting noticed.
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