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Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. It charged 10¢ for 30 minutes, and he spent $9.80 in total at the machine.
Ray Bradbury took 9 days to write his novella, The Firemen, in the basement of a UCLA library on a typewriter rented for 10¢/30 minutes. After being urged by his publisher, he returned to the basement, got to work, and expanded his novella into Fahrenheit 451, which also took 9 days to write
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Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" was actually about how television destroys interest in literature, not about censorship and while giving a lecture in UCLA the class told him he was wrong about his own book, and he just walked away.
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There is a proposed HTTP status code 451 indicating censorship, referencing Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 novel
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In the book Fahrenheit 451, it is not the government that censored books, but the society, and the real message is about the dangers of an illiterate society infatuated with mass media
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Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but 'useless' television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.
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In Fahrenheit 451 the gov't didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
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In the 1966 film adaptation of "Fahrenheit 451" the credits are spoken, not read, in keeping with the film's theme of destruction of reading material.
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HTTP error 451, which is used when a piece of content is unavailable due to censorship, and is a direct reference to Fahrenheit 451.
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HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.
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The film version of "Fahrenheit 451" has spoken opening credits in keeping with the film's story of a world without reading matter.
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Ray Bradbury initially titled Fahrenheit 451 as "The Fireman", but while he inquired local fire station about what temperature book paper burnt at, the firemen actually burnt a book and replied that the temp it burnt at was "Fahrenheit 451".
There was a limited edition publication in 1953 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 bound in asbestos to prevent burning. - source
Fahrenheit 451 writer Ray Bradbury was married to his wife for 56 years, up until her death in 2003. She was the only woman he ever dated. - source
There was a Fahrenheit 451 computer game. Ray Bradbury, the author of the book, wrote much of the prologue and the dialogue of an NPC named "Ray," an intelligent computer. It is considered "semi-canonical."
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't actually intended to be about Censorship or Communism...but about Television
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about government censorship, said author Ray Bradbury, it was about watching too much TV.
Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.
Fahrenheit 451 was published in Europe as 233 Celsius
Ray Bradbury got his units mixed up in Fahrenheit 451
A Video Game of Fahrenheit 451 Was Released in 1984, and is a Semi-Canon Sequel to the Book
