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TIL that during the USA's "Great Depression" in the 1930s, librarians in Kentucky rode around on horseback, dispensing books to over 50,000 families and 155 public schools: "one librarian had to hike her 18-mile route when her mule died"

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woAB8 TIL about the Cerutti Mastodon Site. A site that some researchers claim shows evidence of some type of hominid living in N. America ~130,000 years ago. The previous estimate was only ~24,000 years ago.
1aA17 TIL The 2020 Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the manga "Akira" released in 1982.
GAeLJ TIL There has been only one Female Medal of Honor Recipient: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
epZKb TIL that roughly 67% of the earth is under cloud cover at any given point of time.
JZym TIL that when Disneyland opened, visitors had the option of arriving by highway or skyway (helicopter). However in 1968, 12 years after Disneyland opened,the skyway ended after a crash took the lives of 23 people (20 passengers and 3 crew members), the worst civilian helicopter crash in U.S. history