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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 ***.
 
The Grand Canyon is bigger than Rhode Island.

Sliced bread, the modern tooth brush (with synthetic fibers), Scotch tape, Toll House cookies. the car radio, and Nylon stockings / pantyhose were all U.S. inventions around the time of Great Depression that were all wildly successful and had an impact on recovery from the Great Depression.

We blink our eyes over ten million times a year.

The original 3 Musketeers candy bar was introduced in 1932 by Mars Candy. It had three pieces and three flavors in one package: vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. The three flavors is where the name comes from. During World War II, restrictions on sugar and rising costs of ingredients forced Mars to phase out the vanilla and strawberry flavors, leaving only chocolate, which was the most popular. Vanilla, strawberry and other flavors did not appear again until the 1990s...
 
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Chrysler used to weather the engine blocks by leaving them outside for ? Months.

Children who did not get a lot of sugar when young, are expected to live longer.
 
The GM Iron Duke 2.5 which became popular in the '80s in their FWD platforms had been sitting outside since the '60s on stacked pallets. It was common to have a brand new vehicle come in with nasty rust in the coolant system.
 
mpgmike said:
The GM Iron Duke 2.5 which became popular in the '80s in their FWD platforms had been sitting outside since the '60s on stacked pallets. It was common to have a brand new vehicle come in with nasty rust in the coolant system.
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Not likely, since the Pontiac Iron Duke was designed after the 1973 oil crisis and wasn't available until the 1977 model year.
 

In October 1963, the United States Postal Service published an updated list of two-letter state abbreviations, 49 of which have stayed the same ever since. Nebraska is the sole exception, changing from NB to NE in 1969. State postal abbreviations originated in 1831, when there were 28 states and regions in the U.S. The initial abbreviations included “O.” for Ohio and “Mic. T.” for the Territory of Michigan, among others. As new states were admitted, the USPS updated the list in 1874, 1943, and finally 1963.
The 1963 list updated previous abbreviations that ranged from two to five letters long (including NEB for Nebraska), adopting universal two-letter abbreviations nationwide. However, six years later, the Canada Post unveiled an abbreviation list of its own, which shortened the province of New Brunswick to NB. The Canada Post asked the U.S. Postal Service to change Nebraska’s abbreviation in order to avoid any confusion when sending mail across North America. The request was met without resistance, and the abbreviation for Nebraska was changed from NB to NE in November 1969.
 
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