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Old 07-12-2007, 12:43 PM
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Useless but still interesting trivia on how summer vacation came to be. I always thought it was due to needing kids to work on the farm, but in fact, farm kids used to go to school in the summer.

http://www.slate.com/id/2170230/nav/fix/

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