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Sunday, July 06, 2014

Mafra Palace Library in Portugal.


This magnificent palace and library was built by a king who vowed to create it if his wife gave him descendants, which she did.
The Mafra library uses 500 bats to eat book-eating insects. Each night they are let out to eat up to double their own body weight in insects.


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