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MacGyver, how can we help these kids learn? Find me a donkey, some books, and a stick of gum.

Who invented a library made of donkey? The clever Venezuelans, that’s who. In order to get books to rural kids in need, they turned these cute fellers into walking repositories of knowledge. ¡Viva las bibliomulas!

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Adam Mordecai

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