Wiki Wanderings: Twins
Jan. 8th, 2020 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal"St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, were on different times for two weeks in May 1965 when the capital city decided to join most of the nation by starting Daylight Saving Time, while Minneapolis opted to follow the later date set by state law."
(For the uninitiated, St. Paul and Minneapolis are Minnesota's two largest cities, called the "Twin Cities" because they are literally across a river from each other. I have no idea how that...worked.)
This may be an urban legend but too good not to link:
"The king ordered the experiment to be conducted using two identical twins. Both of the twins had been tried for the crimes they had committed and condemned to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment on the condition that one of the twins drink three pots of coffee, and the other drink the same amount of tea, every day for the rest of their lives."
(For the uninitiated, St. Paul and Minneapolis are Minnesota's two largest cities, called the "Twin Cities" because they are literally across a river from each other. I have no idea how that...worked.)
This may be an urban legend but too good not to link:
"The king ordered the experiment to be conducted using two identical twins. Both of the twins had been tried for the crimes they had committed and condemned to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment on the condition that one of the twins drink three pots of coffee, and the other drink the same amount of tea, every day for the rest of their lives."
