Facts about Wine:
The word "wine" comes from the Proto-Germanic "*winam," an early borrowing from the Latin vinum, "wine" or "(grape) vine," itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European stem *win-o- (cf. Hittite: wiyana ,Lycian: Oino, Ancient Greek οῖνος - oînos, Aeolic Greek ϝοίνος - woinos).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
Facts about Books:
• Read more about "Bookbinding" on Wikipedia.
• The Holy Bible is the biggest selling book of all time.
• The oldest printed book in the World is believed to be "The Diamond Sutra" which bears the date 868 AD.
• Britain’s most expensive book is Skakespeare's First Folio which sold at auction for £2.8 million.
• JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fastest-selling book ever.
• The smallest book in the World is a leather bound volume which measures 2.4mm by 2.9mm and has a letter of the alphabet on each page.
• Book sales in the UK topped over £1 billion in 2007
• Early books didn't have titles or authors or anything printed on the covers.
• Books used to be shelved "backwards" with the spine facing the back of the shelf and the fore-edge facing out.
• Books used to be chained to the bookshelves in libraries.
• Books were sold unbound in quires and if you wanted a bound book you had to buy the quires from the publisher and take them to your favorite bookbinder for binding in your choice of material.
• There are over 50,000 books published each year in the US alone.
Sources: http://www.look4books.co.uk/id73.html
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/Old%20Books/OBKnow.htm
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