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TIL in 1980 a 10 year-old became the youngest librarian in the US after petitioning his mayor for a local library. Starting with 2,000 books he collected himself, his library climbed to 17k books by 1985 after his story was featured across the country including The Tonight Show and Reading Rainbow.

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