High Heels Were Originally Meant for Men, Persuasive Magic Words, and Ancient Graffiti

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you'll learn about some magic words for helping you get your way,
0:10.0	a landmark featuring 1500 years of graffiti, and the story of how high heels were originally meant to be worn by men.
0:16.7	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.4	Cody, have you ever tried wearing high heels?
0:20.7	No, my feet are huge, so. Yeah, that would be difficult.
0:24.0	It would be really hard to find a, yeah.
0:25.0	Yeah, high heels are definitely a skill that you have to master.
0:29.0	They don't, they don't feel normal.
0:30.0	I would imagine, yeah, they look difficult and I'm not a verse to trying them sure like I said I were a men's 11 and a half
0:36.6	Which is the women's like I don't know 200 or something
0:41.7	I mean I just don't know any women that are that tall.
0:44.0	Right, right.
0:45.0	Well, we do live in Chicago and Drag Grace is huge here, so I'm sure you could find somebody.
0:50.0	Oh, I'm sure.
0:51.0	I'm sure there's plenty of places I could I could go out of my way if I if I ever pop into one of those
0:55.8	shops on Halstead I'll give it a shot and let you know how it goes. Take him for a spin. Yeah. Well actually highels used to be for men.
1:03.2	They came to Europe in 1599 when a group of horse-writing Persian diplomats rode from Moscow to Lisbon,
1:09.5	looking for allies in the war against the Ottoman Empire.
1:12.4	The heels were actually a technological
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