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jun 05 Learn More Ray Bradbury Dies


Hey, Hot Stuff. Ever wonder where Ray Bradbury got the title for his most famous book, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451? The visionary author, who died on this day in 2012, claimed that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book quality paper will spontaneously ignite. Operative word: claimed.

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