🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

In 1963, a 16 year old conducted a survey of 150 prominent authors, receiving responses from 75 of them, in an effort to demonstrate to his English teacher that authors do not deliberately incorporate symbolic content into their works.

•1 min read


Fun Fact:

In 1963, a 16 year old conducted a survey of 150 prominent authors, receiving responses from 75 of them, in an effort to demonstrate to his English teacher that authors do not deliberately incorporate symbolic content into their works.

Source favicon

Source

theparisreview.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

The iconic tune heard during Final Jeopardy is known as Think . It was composed in 1963 by Merv Griffin, the creator of Jeopardy, to help his five-year-old son Tony drift off to sleep. Since its debut on the show in 1964, the Griffin family has earned more than $100 million in royalties from the song.

Read →

Helen Viola Jackson, who was only 17 when she married the 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin, passed away in 2020. She had married Bolin so that she would be eligible for his pension, though she never applied for it. Jackson had been helping Bolin with chores prior to their marriage.

Read →

When Jim Morrison was in his final year of school, the books he discussed in class were so unusual that his teachers suspected he had fabricated them. One teacher even went to the Library of Congress to verify if the books were real. Jim had an IQ of 149, which is typically considered to be at a genius level.

Read →

about 11 year old Herman Lehmann, the son of German immigrants, who was captured by the Apaches in central Texas and lived with them for 6 years. He later went on to kill an Apache medicine man to avenge the death of his chief and master and took asylum with the Comanches.

Read →

a father, John Crowley, was told his two infant children had an incurable genetic disorder that would kill them in less than a year. He refused to accept this, so he founded a biotech company (with no prior experience) which pioneered an experimental enzyme therapy that saved their lives.

Read →

a father, John Crowley, was told his two infant children had an incurable genetic disorder that would kill them in less than a year. He refused to accept this, so he founded a biotech company (with no prior experience) which pioneered an experimental enzyme therapy that saved their lives.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts