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Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Importance of Stationarias

There is a medieval Latin word stationarias, which means a shopkeeper or tradesman who had a regular place. Why might that have been associated with bookshops in particular? Books are heavy. And there's your answer, Ren. Potatoes are not, apparently. But you've still got to pull them in from the farm anyway. What eventually contains 178 feet, 81 heads, 46 wings and eight udders.

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