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A Series of Interesting Jobs That No Longer Exist

  • Brian HeaterBrian Heater
  • September 18, 2014

Mental Floss host Elliott Morgan presents a list of fascinating jobs that don’t exist in this modern world, from phrenologists to ratteners.

In the Victorian era, a ratterner would catch rats and sell them to local pubs. There, dogs would eat them, which served as entertainment for pubgoers. They didn’t really have reality TV back then.

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