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Filing Cabinets: How They Changed the World

Patented: History of Inventions

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What's in the Filing Cabinet?

The filing cabinet only sort of became public in the US around 1898, 1899. So it's almost like the Library Bureau has been sitting on this invention. Why were medieval priests so worried that women were going to seduce men with fish they'd kept in their pants? Who was the first gay activist? And what on earth does the expression sneezing in the cabbage mean?

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