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34: Six unnecessary doorknobs

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The History of the Parasol

Whenever I think of promenade, for some reason, I think of parasols. The streets were made wide to show something off or to account for people showing something off. So maybe you're just taking up a lot of space in the pavement. You are so nearly there. It's not a parasol, but you've got pretty much the rest of that word. They were a horse. Is this... I didn't know what happened in the 60s. We have put two history questions back to back here, haven't we? For Genzi. When were cars? Is this like during the industrial revolution? Is that this time period? Am I wrong? Yeah. But

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