Teo · 8 answers · 4y

What's an interesting and not well known fact about your country or hometown?

We actually have the highest proportion of Liches of any city in the country. 47.9% of our population is just Litches.

My home town has:

-the deepest hand-dug well in the world (390 metres/1,285 ft)

-the oldest still operating electric railway in the world (opened 1883)

-the oldest operating aquarium in the world (opened 1872)

Have you heard of the coral castle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle That's about 14 miles away from here. I've driven there before. Btw, you would love the creators views on things.. he wrote a pamphlet that they give out at the coral castle, or at least they used to.. one example from it is that he didn't believe women should be allowed to smile because it puts wrinkles on their beautiful faces. =P

It (Boston) used to be 5 separate islands before they drained all the marshes, dug out a bunch of hills, and connected everything using landfill. That's why there's a lot of structural problems here especially with sinking. The foundation isn't adequately solid.

Thos was a Roman town in ancient times and they installed water, sewage, central heating and toilets. Also they had roads, postal service, tax offices, public cleaning, a night watch.... you name it. All of these items today lack the quality they had 2000 years ago. As if they had said: Progress? Fuck it! Back to the cavemen!

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