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Did you know that when playwright Joe Orton was sent to Prison for defacing library books, he was given a job in the prison library?

Did you know that author Robert Louis Stevenson, born on this day in 1850, nobly signed away all ‘rights’ to his birthday to a young girl whose birthday was on Christmas? As a letter of 1891 makes clear: I Have transferred, and do hereby transfer to the said A. H. Ide, All and Whole of my rights and privileges in the 13th day of November, formerly my birthday, now, hereby, and henceforth, the birthday of the said A. H. Ide, to have, hold, exercise and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verse, according to the manner of our ancestors.

Did you know that Lord Byron kept a menagerie of wild animals which included monkeys, badgers, cranes, and crocodiles?

Did you know that in 1931, the governor of Hunan province in China banned Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland because ‘animals should not use human language’.

Did you know that a young James Joyce dedicated his first play ‘to my own soul’?

Did you know that Before settling on the pseudonym Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens wrote under the pen names ‘Josh’ and ‘Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass’?

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Did you know that Winnie-the-Pooh was was published on this day in 1926?

We’re feeling very superstitious this Friday the 13th!!

Did you know that poet Any Lowel once bought a stash of 10,000 cigars claiming that she needed them to help her write?

Did you know that French writer Gerard de Nerval took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais-Royal?