These days, you can pretty much Google anything. Whether we want to find out 'How to do the splits', 'Who was the first King of England?', 'How do you get rid of brain freeze' or even 'What type of dog is Snoopy?' the internet will have the answer.
But before Google, just what did people do when they had such burning questions? They went to their local library, that's what.
One such library was the New York Public Library, which recently discovered a box of queries from readers from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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Luckily for us, they decided to share those gems on their Instagram account using the hashtag #letmelibrarianthatforyou and they are highly addictive. Go on, have a read…
