"In the morning Fatty was mildly unnerved to see the other hobbits painting a large sign outside the little house with 'Frodo lives here' and 'Sauron sucks!'
on it."
I remember when Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (Mix of 'Choose your own adventure' and solo D+D adventure) were big in the UK in the 80s, and teachers were sniffy about them not being proper reading. I bet they'd love their kids to be reading them now.
Edwin Berlekamp significantly reduced (by half I think) the number of transistors required for the Reed-Solomon error correcting code by telling them to use a non-standard 'primitive element'
“Secret Army” (the “straight” inspiration of the comedy “Allo Allo”) - a dramatised version of the Belgian Comete line that returned allied airmen to Britain still stands up as a superb series from the 70s.
"The title is the same as that of a very well-known book by Professor
L. E. Dickson (with which ours has little in common). We proposed
at one time to change it to 'An introduction to arithmetic', a more novel
and in some ways a more appropriate title; but it was pointed out that
this might lead to misunderstandings about the content of the book."
G.H. Hardy and E. M. Wright "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers"
https://youtu.be/x-HBsT6GmMs?t=69