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TIL that deep inside an abandoned mine 230’ below Pennsylvania 600 federal workers process truckloads of retirement paperwork by hand moving files to and from over 28,000 file cabinets, desk to desk, from cavern to cavern. The process works as slowly now as it did in 1977.

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