Versailles

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1. We have the French Revolution to thank for public zoos I think it was the French Revolution that caused the creation of the first public zoo because the National Assembly ruled that all privately owned exotic animals had to be donated to Versailles state and so they set up a zoo But I also really love the giraffe called Zarafa which was a gift to the French King Charles the 10th from the Ottoman Viceroy and She became so popular this giraffe and so famous.

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2. It partly relates back to the First World War, right? In the First World War, again, lots of post-war reparations. Treaty of Versailles took a lot of things away from Germany. There was a shortage of various key materials for the German economy and for the armaments and all of this. They developed the technique of press forging, which is where you press down on the, just because it's more efficient.

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3. Yeah, there are some others like Whack-a-Banker and Whack-a-Wardon, kind of like new versions of them where you can attack some people with unpopular jobs in the future. Right. The Versailles Palace in France, famously, has its own mole catcher, and it has had for 330 years, okay. They certainly had in 2012, which was when I read an interview with the Versailles catcher, Jerome Dormion, and he signs off all his text messages with mole catcher to the king, completely ignoring the fact France no longer has kings.

   377: No Such Thing As The Mole Street Journal, 2021-06-11 · listen ⏱ 00:12:55

4. Unpopular jobs in the future. The Versailles Palace in France, famously, has its own mole catcher and it has had for 330 years, okay? They certainly had in 2012, which was when I read an interview with the Versailles catcher Jerome Dormion. He signs off all his text messages with mole catcher to the king, completely ignoring the fact France no longer has kings. They literally... dealt with that situation.

   No Such Thing As The Mole Street Journal, 2021-06-11 · listen ⏱ 00:13:52

5. Yeah, there are some others like Waka Banker and Waka Warden. kind of like new versions of them where you can attack some people with unpopular jobs in the future. The Versailles Palace in France, famously, has its own mole catcher and it has had for 330 years, okay? They certainly had in 2012, which was when I read an interview with the Versailles catcher Jerome Dormion. He signs off all his text messages with mole catcher to the king, completely ignoring the fact France no longer has kings.

   No Such Thing As The Mole Street Journal, 2021-06-11 · listen ⏱ 00:13:25