33 Facts Whispered to Us By A Bookworm Before They Were Shushed By A Salty Librarian

Better enjoy these. They almost got us kicked out of the library!
33 Facts Whispered to Us By A Bookworm Before They Were Shushed By A Salty Librarian
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Shhh! 

Doesn’t feel good to be shushed, now does it? Well if we had to go through that traumatic experience to get these, then so do you! All we wanted was a handful of awesome facts about books without some crusty old shush-master librarian getting in the way. Doesn’t she want us to learn more about books?

You know what? We’re not shushing. If a good pal wants to whisper these in our ear, we’ll gladly risk a library ejection. Take that, Myrtle. Or Agnes, or whatever you name is.

 

Surya Siddhanta

An Indian book from the 4th century accurately described the Earth's diameter. CRACKED.COM Surya Siddhanta was only off by 72 miles by current standards, describing the planet as 8,000 miles in di- ameter. The book also pro- vided an accurate distance between the Moon and Earth, much before Galileo.

3rd Rock from the Sun

Movie and TV Aliens 3rd Rock from the Sun Dick Solomon's dialogue was written by an actual scientist. Brian Greene, author of popular science book The Elegant Universe, wrote much of the physics- speak for John Lithgow's alien character. CRACKED.COM

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The Iron Giant

In early illustrations for The Iron Giant novel, the giant looked terrifying. For some reason, he was depicted as a steampunk mecha stalking the woods. CRACKED.COM

Psycho

Norman Bates is actually a chubby nerd. PSYCHO CRACKED.COM In the 1960 film (and all other iterations) Norman Bates is a thin, attractive man, but Robert Bloch's novel describes him as an overweight, middle-aged man with thick glasses.

Dawson’s Creek

Joey DAWSON'S CREEK CRACKED.COM Joey (short for Josephine) from Dawson's Creek is named for Jo from the Louisa May Alcott novel, Little Women. Dawson, of course, is named for his creek.

Harry Potter

CRACKED.COM Harry Potter Sirius Black doesn't show up until the third book in the series - but he's namedropped in the very first episode of the first novel, when Hagrid mentions that the flying motorcycle he's riding belongs to Sirius.

Stephen King

The Shining The Shiping by Stephen King A new novel by the author of CARRIE and SALEMSLOT CRACKED.COM Ticked off that Stanley Kubrick gave up the supernatural for the psychological, Stephen King says it's a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little.

Gary K. Wolf

Gary K. Wolf took WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT as canon over his own book. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is very different from Robert Zemeckis' adaptation. Wolf seems to prefer the cinematic Toontown, as the second Roger Rabbit book is more a sequel to the movie than to his first novel. CRACKED.COM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST A NOVEL BY Ken Kesey CRACKED COM Author Ken Kesey was so mad that they made the movie about Randle McMurphy instead of Chief Bromden that he quit working on the production and would change the channel any time the movie was on TV.

Lynne Cheney

Dick Cheney's wife Lynne published a lesbian romance novel. SISTERS LYNNE CHENET - - THE NOVEL OFA STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO BROKE ALLTHE RULES OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER Sisters was considered so controversial, Cheney persuaded the publisher not to re-issue it in the 2004 re-election year (it was written about 25 years earlier). CRACKED.COM

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar co-wrote a novel about Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft. to KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR and ANNA WATERHOUSE MYCROFT - AND SHERLOCK It's a murder mystery set in the days of Mycroft's youth that kind of functions as an origin story. CRACKED.COM

Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks' book Modelland is truly weird sci-fi YA fiction. TYRA BANKS Modelland It's about Tookie, a regular girl who somehow gets a SMIZE, an artifact that could get her to Modelland, a boarding school in the skies that trains young models. CRACKED.COM

Lois Duncan

Lois Duncan dislikes the film adaptation of her teen novel, 1 Know What You Did Last Summer, for trivializing violence and making murder seem like a game. Subsequent editions of the book even reprint an interview where she makes her opinion plain. CRACKED.COM

Ancient Greek Sci-Fi

A True Story, the first sci-fi novel, was written in Greek during the 2nd century CE. A OTKIANOT ARANTA LVCIANI SAMOSATENSIS Opera, que quidem extant omnia. Grace بركم It featured robots, space travel, aliens, artificial atmospheres, and more. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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A Possible Django Novel

CRACKED.COM The Hateful Eight started out as a Django novel. Quentin Tarantino had already written a good chunk of Django in White Hell, when he realized that Django didn't fit in the story. His role was given to Samuel L. Jackson's Marquis Warren.

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The Virgin Suicides

INDIE MOVIES OF THE '90s THE VIRGIN SUICIDES THE NOVEL DROVE SOFIA COPPOLA TO BECOME A DIRECTOR. I really didn't know I wanted to be a director until I read The Virgin Suicides and saw so clearly how it had to be done, Coppola said-and indeed, the adaptation was one of her first movies. CRACKED.COM

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

October on HBOMAX The Bridge on October 1 the River Kwai The film is based on a novel by French writer Pierre Boulle, who also wrote the original Planet of the Apes. CRACKED.COM

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Pitch Perfect

THE MOVIE IS BASED ON A NON-FICTION BOOK. Journalist and former senior editor at GQ Magazine Mickey Rapkin researched competitive collegiate a cappella, and the result was the 2008 book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate a Cappella Glory. PITCH PERFECT CRACKED.COM

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