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Open the book on literary oddities! From record-breaking sentences to word origins and genre pioneers, these facts will surprise even avid readers.
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📘 Fact Explanations:
1. This famously long sentence appears in Part III, Book Eighth, Chapter III of 'Les Misérables.' While other authors have penned longer continuous sentences, Hugo's is a well-known literary feat of complex prose.
2. Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic novella 'Carmilla,' published in 1871, features a female vampire and influenced Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' which was published in 1897.
3. In 'If I Ran the Zoo,' Dr. Seuss lists fantastical creatures, including: 'A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too!' This is the first known use of the word 'nerd'.
4. Shakespeare's works are the first recorded use of many words like 'eyeball,' 'swagger,' 'fashionable,' 'lackluster,' and phrases like 'break the ice,' significantly enriching the English lexicon.