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It's the best I can do in trying to get in tune with my inner fish, anyway, at least until gill implants are a real thing. Seriously, research scientists, like you have better things to work on. What are necks for if not to eventually implant gills? Pretty sure that's what all this evolution has been working up to.

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Ray Bradbury's seminal work 'Fahrenheit 451' is about a world of censorship where books are illegal and burned by "firemen." The only way to get information in this world is through television. The title comes from the fact that book paper will automatically ignite at that temperature, though it's more of an estimate, as different factors can cause paper to ignite at different temperatures.

In 1953, Ballantine Books released 200 limited edition copies of the work that could survive an encounter with Bradbury's firemen. These books were signed by Bradbury and bound in the fire resistant material Johns-Manville Quinterra, a chrysolite asbestos.

Such copies of the book are bound to be worth a lot of money to collectors. Copies in good condition have been known to be offered for as much as $20,000!

For a long time these remained the only books bound in such a way and are currently only one of two such books. The other is Stephen King's 'Firestarter' which has 23 copies bound in the material.

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J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, will hit theaters on Nov. 18, 2016, Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday. The movie will kick off what will eventually become a trilogy based on the 54-page book, which originally came out in 2001. The book itself essentially details the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe, and is set about seven decades before the start of the Harry Potter storyline; in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Fantastic Beasts is actually a book owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander.

As Rowling has said before, the book isn’t so much a prequel to any of the Harry Potter books, but an extension of the universe. This far ahead of the movie’s release, no casting is yet attached to the project nor are there any directors involved. What’s clear, however, is that Warner Bros. wants to stretch the Harry Potter lore as far as possible by creating three “megamovies,” similar to the approach used for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. It’s unclear when the other two movies will hit theaters, but we imagine they’ll follow an annual release cycle.

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