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5: When time goes up to 30 o'clock

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The History of Holidays in France

From it 1789 to 2015, a certain group of French people were forbidden from going on holiday without giving notice to the local authority first and putting up a public notice. What did they do for a living? So I'm going to do the thing where I write down my answer because I nearly did a video on this and couldn't get the story to quite work. Gradient Rowan, this one's on you. Oh my goodness. One down. Man, a public notice is that. They had to put they had to make a public notice and also notify a certain authority within France is that. And specifically it's like they're going on holiday like they're assuming it's something

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