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The royal palace cables installed with ferrets

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When ambitious engineers needed to desperately thread early electrical and broadcast cables through the impossibly tight conduits of historical royal estates, they occasionally relied on trained ferrets. Workers would attach lightweight strings to the nimble animals and lure them through the labyrinthine pipes using the scent of fresh meat.

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