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How did P. T. Barnum Trick the World into Riding Elevators?
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:37:20
Publish Date: 2020-03-30 04:00:00
Description:

Elevators seem pretty mundane, until you realize a certain king used them to hide his mistresses; a certain politician used them to exaggerate the height of his buildings, and all of America refused to ride them until a certain marketing genius (the one and only P. T. Barnum!) designed a stunt to get everyone on board. 

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