stackyFACTSNighttime travel before electricity was essentially a guessing game. Wooden coaches were equipped with tiny glass lanterns holding a single candle, barely illuminating a few feet of dirt and offering zero actual help in avoiding a ditch.
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Enclosed wooden coaches in the winter were essentially rolling freezers. To avoid losing toes to frostbite, miserable passengers would pre-heat large bricks…
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Moving solid heavy minerals is vastly overrated. Back in 1595, Austrians realized it was significantly lazier to just dissolve their mined salt in water and…
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George Smith, a London taxi driver, earned the miserable honor of becoming the first person ever arrested for drunk driving in 1897 after slamming his…
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William Kent designed a tiny, incredibly ornate shell-shaped carriage for the Duke of Devonshire's children in 1733. Instead of the parents pushing it, they…
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People genuinely acted like a three-hour train journey meant certain doom. It was entirely normal to throw massive, tearful departure parties at the station…
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