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TIL that there used to be a book store in Paris where you could live for free if you read one book a day and worked two hours pr day

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X0AW8 TIL Yasushi Takahashi left behind his girlfriend for six months to wander across Japan to create an epic marriage proposal. Carrying a GPS, Yassan covered 7,163.7 km mostly by walking, but with some use of a car, ferry and bicycle.
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