New England needed candles at noon and nobody knew why
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#77AMG)
On the morning of May 19, 1780, the sky over New England went dark enough that people burned candles from noon on. In Ipswich, Massachusetts, the roosters and the frogs started up at two in the afternoon as though night had arrived. - Read the rest
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