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The History of Fake Towns.

Stuff You Should Know

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Building Fake Cities in World War II

The French military got good enough at shooting down Zeppelin's that the Germans were like, you should probably figure out something faster than a Zeppelin to drop bombs from. Ed helped us out with this one and we're not going to cover about movie back lots. But I'm sure all of this stuff was influenced by the fact that they're making movies now where we build fake cities to great effectlike it ain't that hard. We can all just move to the left at our leisure and we'll be all right.

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