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The Library of Congress is the largest library

Its collections hold more than 170 million items in Washington Founded in 1800 and rebuilt after British troops burned it in 1814, the library now holds over 170 million books, recordings, maps, photographs and manuscripts. It occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill and adds roughly 10,000 items every working day. Most of the collection is stored off site in climate controlled facilities in Maryland and Virginia. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its collections hold more than 170 million items in Washington. The figure is taken from Library of Congress, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.