How Freak Shows Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Not too long ago, people would pay money to gawk and stare at a performer with a physical disformity. They were called freakshows and they began in large part thanks to P.T. Barnum, whose circus we still enjoy today. Sounds awful, but some of these perfor

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:43.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from howstuffworks.com.
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0:55.4	I'm Josh Glark, this is Chalza, if you chucked Brian.
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