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39: Dare you brave this shopping mall?

Lateral with Tom Scott

CHAPTER

The History of Escalators

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Escalators once ate my shoe. I was at an event called Intel ISEF, which is like Miss and Mr World but for geeks. And I had these like little shoes on and it got caught in the escalator and dragged in and it like crushed my foot. "You've just affirmed a lot of people's childhood fears," she says.

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