Why Everyone in 1700s London Smelled Absolutely Disgusting (And Didn't Care)
Pick any street in London. 1720. Walk down it.A wealthy merchant's wife. A market worker. A surgeon about to perform an operation. A servant girl. All of them smell. Powerfully. In a way that would make you physically recoil.And not one of them thinks anything is wrong.This video follows four completely different people through one day in 1700s Europe — same city, same day, completely different lives. You'll find out what the richest women actually did instead of bathing, why surgeons were proud of blood-stained coats, and how one single advertisement in 1888 invented something that didn't exist before: the embarrassment of smelling like a human.It's longer than you'd expect. That's the point.

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