Did you know there's a book that no one will ever finish reading in their lifetime, and it only has 10 pages?
In 1960, French writer Raymond Queneau enlisted the help of mathematician François Le Lionnet and created the world's longest book.
It's called "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems," and it consists of just 10 pages, each containing a sonnet.
All the verses share the same rhyme pattern and are printed on strips, allowing readers to combine lines from different sonnets.
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This arrangement results in a total of 10¹⁴ possible combinations, meaning the book contains 100 trillion unique poems. This means that no one will ever be able to read the entire book, even with the greatest effort. It would take millions of years to match all the possible combinations of poems—without taking breaks for food, sleep, or anything else. And all this comes from just 10 pages!