50 Facts from the Twitter Page “Museum of Curiosities” That Are Disturbing as We Expected

You’ve probably heard about neighborhood libraries before, but did you know that walking libraries also existed? No, they didn’t grow legs like in Howl’s Moving Castle. It was all man-powered and actually rather simple in execution. We wonder why this particular practice ever stopped…

We can’t imagine the pain it must’ve been for the person carrying all that weight of these books. We wonder what the loan policy would have been in this situation… What were they expected to do, find a spot in the town square, and stand there for hours while people browse the titles?