Nowadays the world is divided into a series of 'time zones.' Yet before the 1880s, towns across the United States ran on a sort of local time -- when you left one town, you often traveled slowly enoug...Show More
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mm recommended:Aug 23rd, 2020
Super fascinating episode about how time zones were actually created by the railroad industry, because there were way too many train crashes from the 50+ local times in the US that they had a surgeon on every train back in the days!
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