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Anna Mazzola on Twitter: "At the Rococo Library in Portugal's Mafra National Palace. At night, bats are released to eat the book-damaging bugs https://t.co/xIGxbLViN4" / Twitter
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Bats in the Library" by Brian Lies has only a passing similarity to the real-life library bats of Biblioteca Joanina and Mafra Palace Library in Portugal. These two old libraries are protected
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