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What type of workers are named after the mercenary knights who toured Europe after the Crusades?

The answer to that at the end of the show.

My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

We've got so good at making this show now that we can strip it down to its bare essentials.

Here we go.

There are questions. There are guests. And there will be

confusion. And if anything else happens, that's honestly a bonus. Let's meet the three players

that are going to be confused today. We start returning to the show from the depths of Wikipedia.

Annie Rowardo, welcome back. Hi, I've emerged from the depths. What depths have you been plumbing recently?

Oh boy, I was just reading about in Darwin, Australia, there was in the 1970s, there was

a group that did rock sitting as an activity.

There had just been a big hurricane, so there was really nowhere to hang out, and they would sit

on rocks, drink beer, sometimes for large

stretches of time and they're still doing it in their 70s. So I was reading about them. I'm a big

fan. Shout out to Darwin. Wait, for a moment when you said rock sitting, I got that in the,

in the idea of babysitting. They're not keeping someone else's rock. No, they're sitting on rocks.

But there were babies there. Many of them got married. Many of them are still friends. It turns out when you sit on a rock for two weeks straight, sometimes you find love.

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