Before Google, Here's What New Yorkers Asked The NYPL

It seems like an eternity but only a few years ago people relied on reference librarians to answer their questions. They tackled them all - the easy, the difficult and the downright crazy. The New York Public Library has discovered a box containing old reference questions from the 1940s to 1980 and they'll be posting the questions to their Instagram account on Mondays.

More weird queries at Gothamist