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Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Importance of a Low-Ceilinged House

Houses on a Greek island near Crete were built low to the floor or underground. Why? Because they didn't want to look like just a rock, and so... Who invaded? Would that be the Persians? Persian Empire? But yet, it's a camouflage. We want to go down the camouflage route. How old are these houses? Are we talking like... Dozens of years or hundreds of years or thousands of years? And where were they? Oh, there's anyone know their history?"

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