stackyFACTSThe idea of paying a man to physically run down the street dragging you in a two-wheeled wooden cart didn't exist until the late 1800s. It was a massive hit purely because humans could navigate narrow, winding alleyways far better than any clunky, heavy animal-drawn carriage ever could.
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