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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

Daylight Saving Time

First Used in Canada in 1908​

While Germany and Austria were the first countries to use DST in 1916, it is a little-known fact that a few hundred Canadians beat the German Empire by eight years. On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario—today's Thunder Bay—turned their clocks forward by one hour to start the world's first DST period.
 
Pete Best, the drummer for The Beatles before Ringo Starr, released an album of his own in 1966 with a sneaky title.
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I wonder how many people fell for it.
 
The only settlement established by samurai outside of Japan — and the first Japanese colony in North America — was the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony in Gold Hill, California. Established on June 8, 1869, the settlement was comprised of 22 people from samurai families (they even brought their swords with them), including farmers and carpenters, who had fled the Boshin War, a civil war that was a precursor to the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 that effectively ended the samurai class. The colony got off to a bright start, with the planting of tea plants, mulberry trees, and bamboo, all in anticipation of the arrival of further colonists from Japan. But the influx of fresh settlers never came, and the farm soon began to fail. It’s unclear what happened to most of the settlers, but we do know that the historic site is home to the grave of Okei Ito, the first Japanese woman buried on American soil. The colony was also the birthplace of Mary Schnell (the daughter of the colony’s founder, John Schnell), the first naturalized Japanese American citizen.
 
Paul Revere was the first person to practice forensic dentistry in the United States.
 
halfafish said:
The handrails on an escalator move faster than the stair treads.
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Yep....and it's funny as all f**k when some dumbass stop at the bottom, and everyone piles on top.

I have seen that several times on the London Underground. Usually dopey tourists gorping around. :lol:
 
kiwigtx said:
Yep....and it's funny as all f**k when some dumbass stop at the bottom, and everyone piles on top.

I have seen that several times on the London Underground. Usually dopey tourists gorping around. :lol:
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Saw a guy get his shoelace caught at
the top. He was lucky in that it tore his
shoe off with no physical harm. But he
did end up on his ***.
 
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