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Television

Amazing Facts 4 U — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:30:35 +0000

40 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Television | Amazing Facts 4U

Television sets receive and display broadcasts of moving images and also produce sound through speakers.
The images on a TV screen in fact refresh fast enough to appear as a smooth motion to the human eye.
In fact, the first black and white static transmission was created by the German inventor Paul Nipkow’s way back in 1884.
John Logie Baird made technological history when the first transmission of a moving human face was seen on television on 30th October 1925.
The world’s first working television system was electromechanical.
The human face that was first aired on Baird’s TV screen was his office boy, William Taynton, who the inventor paid two shillings and a sixpence per week to simply sit in front of the hot TV transmitter.
The first television set had only 30 lines of display giving a very coarse image. Currently, the digital signal of the television sends pictures with 1080 lines.
Amazingly the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile”.
The First American television station started working in 1928, and BBC transmission began in 1930.
The word “television” entered the English language in 1907 coined by the Russian scientist, Constantin Persky. The abbreviation “TV” was first used in 1948.
Cable television made its debut in Canada in 1952.
Worldwide 100 million television sets were sold first time in 1960.
The first satellite TV transmission took place between France and the US in 1962.
Color television sets didn’t become widespread until the 1970s. Sales of color TVs surpassed black-and-white sets for the first time in 1972.
The first TV remote control was created in 1950 by Zenith and was connected to a television by a wire. The 1980s saw the arrival of remote controls.
Early monitors used cathode ray tubes (CRT) which have since been replaced by thinner screens that use liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma.
Similar to radio, television broadcasts are transmitted at specific frequencies.
More recently there has been a change from analog transmissions to digital. The 0’s and 1’s of a digital transmission are like the information stored in a computer, making them more reliable than traditional analog broadcasts.
Television became widely popular after the end of World War II. Over 1 million American homes had a television in 1948.
The first television commercial for Bulova watches was broadcast on July 1, 1941, in New York before a baseball game between Philadelphia and Brooklyn. It showed a watch ticking for exactly 60 seconds. The company paid only $9 for the ad. Currently, prime time TV advertising cost millions.
The first car commercial on television was for Chevrolet and aired on June 9, 1946.
The average American family watches TV for eight hours per day.
Currently, there are about 300 million television sets in the United State.
Way back in 1950, only 10 percent of U.S. households had a television. The percentage increased to an unbelievable 90% in 1960. Now 99% of American homes own at least one television set, and 66% have at least three.
In the US the first colored pictures were aired for the 1954 Tournament of the Roses Parade; however, most programs were black and white until 1955. The UK aired the first color pictures on BBC2 during Wimbledon in 1967. in color.
Most people dream in color, but those that grew up watching black and white television may often dream in black and white.
The Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) was launched for consumers in 1963 in the UK, allowing viewers to record their favorite TV shows for the very first time. The videos could record only up to 20 minutes of TV. It took another decade for the technology to become a global success.
After President Kennedy’s death in 1963, the television networks aired four days of commercial-free coverage of his funeral, burial, and other proceedings, costing them about $100 million in lost advertising revenue. About 93% of American homes watched some coverage.
Product placement is illegal on Norwegian television.
The television is on for an average of about 8 hours a day in U.S. homes.
It has been calculated that the average American child sees about 13,000 deaths on television between the ages of five and 14.
The average American child sees about 200,000 acts of violence on TV by the age of eighteen.
Liquid Crystals were in fact accidentally discovered by Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888. However, it remained a scientific curiosity for about 76 years before they were used to build liquid crystal displays (LCD) in 1964.
NASA has announced that they have lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11’s TV transmission in August 2006.
The world’s largest LED display, the Fremont Street Experience, in Las Vegas is over 1,500 ft. long and 90 ft. high at the peak built-in 1995.
The first public digital high-definition television (HDTV or HD) broadcast was made in the United States in 1996.
Television viewers in the UK have to pay $225 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC.
During a live news broadcast in 1974, the news anchor announced “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide.” then shot and killed herself live on television.
Amazingly until 1987, there were no television broadcasts in Iceland on Thursdays.
The famous revolving globe that is utilized by the NBC news series spent many years turning in the wrong direction. In 1984 this was eventually found and now the globe is turning correctly.

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Facts about Authors

Amazing Facts 4 U — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:30:37 +0000

25 Amazing and Little Known Facts about Authors | Amazing Facts 4U

Amazingly Giacomo Casanova (1725-98) wrote his memoir in 12 Volumes, “The Story of My Life” running to 3,600 pages. It was written in French because Casanova thought it more sophisticated than his native Italian. It was published for the full first time in 1960.
Mystery writer, Agatha Christie, once amazingly disappeared for 3 months. She never revealed why or where she was.
Agatha Christie wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym, Mary Westmacott.
Amazingly Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word.
The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. He had to take up writing to make ends meet.
The amazing fact is that before writing 007 novels, Ian Fleming studied languages at Munich and Geneva universities, worked with Reuters in Moscow, and then became a banker and stockbroker.
The most expensive book is The Task by Tomas Alexander Hartmann. It has an amazing value from the author for 213 million U.S. dollars. It’s only 13 pages long.
In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one sentence that is an amazing 823 words long.
Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue had a massive amazing 1,058 novels published.
Amazingly Stephen King received 60 rejection notices before his first short story was published!
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic of the sea, ‘Moby Dick’, only sold 50 copies.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story in 1838, titled “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.” In the story, three shipwreck survivors in an open boat kill and eat the fourth man, named Richard Parker. In 1884, three real-life shipwreck survivors in an open boat killed and ate the fourth man, whose name was also Richard Parker.
Columnist and author Marilyn Vos Savant holds a Guinness world record for the highest IQ ever recorded, scoring a whopping 228 on the IQ test.
Dr. Seuss wrote a novel “Green Eggs & Ham” using only 50 different words winning an amazing bet against his publisher who claimed it can’t be done. It became one of the best-selling children’s books of all time.
As a young man, William Shakespeare was caught poaching on another person’s property and sent into exile as punishment.
The amazing fact is that George Bernard Shaw is the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar!
Sidney Sheldon didn’t start writing novels until he was in his fifties.
French author Michel Thaler published an amazing 233-page novel that has no verbs.
Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements. Mark twain was a Mississippi riverboat term meaning mark number two. It was the second mark on the line that measured the depth of the river and signified two fathoms, or twelve feet, a safe depth for the steamboat.
An amazing fact is Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Haley’s Comet came into view.
When Mark Twain died in 1910, Haley’s Comet came into view again.
Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary.
The amazing fact is that Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel in 1939, ‘Gadsby’, which contains over 50,000 words, none of them with the letter E!
Virginia Wolfe wrote all her books standing.

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Books

Amazing Facts 4 U — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:30:46 +0000

30 Amazing Facts About Books | Amazing Facts 4U

The first book to ever be printed was the Bible. It was, however, in Latin rather than English.
Amazingly it took three years of constant printing to complete Johann Gutenberg’s famous Bible, which appeared in 1455 in two volumes and had 1,284 pages. He reportedly printed 200 Bibles, of which 47 still exist.
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time with amazing six billion books sold.
The Bible was in fact written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
The amazing fact is that if you put all the bibles printed so far on a long bookshelf and started driving along the shelf at 55 mph, you would have to drive 40 hours per week for over four months to get to the end.
The oldest-dated book in the world is the British Library’s copy of the Diamond Sutra, printed in China in 868.
In the 15 th century , scholars in China compiled a set of encyclopedia that contained amazing 11095 volumes.
In the 16th century, the world’s bestselling book was Erasmus’s handbook on good manners for children, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus. Written in Latin in Freiburg in 1530, it has amazingly run to 130 editions over 300 years.
Amazingly there have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.
It’s amazing that the United States Library of Congress contains 73 millions books arranged on 350 miles of shelves.
Amazingly Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel in 1939 , ‘Gadsby’, which contains over 50,000 words , none of them with the letter E!
French author Michel Thaler published an amazing 233 page novel which has no verbs.
During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic of the sea, ‘Moby Dick’, only sold 50 copies.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge which was amazingly returned by heirs 288 years later.
There is an amazing book giving the calculation of pi to two million places running to 800 pages.
In the book, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one amazing sentence which is 823 words long.
The author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, was an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor. He had to take up writing to make ends meet.
Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word.
Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue had amazing 1,058 novels published.
The largest book in the world is “The Klencke Atlas” which is 1.75 meters long and 1.90 meters wide. It needs six persons to lift it and other two to open it. Johan Maurits of Nassau made The Klencke Atlas, which Amsterdam merchant Johannes Klencke apparently presented to Charles II of England upon the king’s restoration to the throne in 1660. The book is a collection of maps.
Amazingly Alice In Wonderland was banned in China in 1931 as talking animals were an insult to humans.
Amazing fact is that part of the M6 toll road is built from copies of pulped Mills and Boon novels. 2.5 million books were shredded into a paste and then added to a mixture of asphalt and Tarmac to prevent it cracking.
Amazingly the most expensive book is The Task by Tomas Alexander Hartmann. It has a value by the author for 213 million U.S. dollars. It’s only 13 pages long.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Fact is Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear trousers.
The last word in the Bible is “Amen.”
The world’s smallest book must be read using an electron microscope. This first-ever nanoscale book was published as a work of art in April 2007. This amazing book, called Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, measures 0.07 mm by 0.10 mm!!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , 1974 book which was amazingly rejected by 121 publishers has sold 5 million copies worldwide !
Amazing fact is that Harvard university library has 4 books bound in human skin.
The world’s most expensive book ever purchased was bought by Bill Gates at auction for amazing $30.8 million dollars. The title of the book is Codex Leicester by Leonard da Vinci.

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