That's Interesting...

By DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
United States
May 17, 2025 5:50pm CST
I looked up the NextDoor site for my city and found interesting information about my city that I didn't know... My city has the nickname "The City of Lights" but I didn't know where it came from. Apparently, when a Post Office was established in the village in 1937, it became known as the goddess of the dawn, Aurora. Later, our city was the first one in the US to establish electric lights to light the city itself and got the nickname "City of Lights". Probably not interesting to anyone else, but it is to me.
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Always smiling
@allknowing (145679)
• India
9h
And now with AI you will get all that and more in a jiffy
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Always smiling
@allknowing (145679)
• India
8h
@DaddyEvil How does one turn off AI? And incidentally you can ignore AI contribution as there will be more answers from other sources.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
9h
I've never used AI.
DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
8h
@allknowing You go into settings and turn it off. And yes, I know... Answers that can be trusted as long as you pay attention and don't pick answers from people trying to play with you/other people.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (474317)
• Italy
2h
That is interesting. The only thing I know about the city where we live is that the name comes from the Celtic language and means "the place where the Tramontane wind blows".
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
1h
A cold wind from the North? That's still pretty interesting.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (474317)
• Italy
1h
@DaddyEvil We are in the north of Italy here, the cold wind is called BISE and this place is called Bizzarone.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
46m
@LadyDuck Oh, I see...
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (74675)
• United States
9h
It’s always cool to find out things about your hometown. And I thought Vegas was the sin city of lights.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
9h
You'd have a (very small) riot here if you started comparing my city to Vegas! That would be too funny!
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (74675)
• United States
9h
@DaddyEvil — from “the city that never sleeps” to “the city that never wakes up.”
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
9h
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (353402)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
I found that interesting as Perth was/is called the City of Lights too. Everyone that was able turned on their lights when astronaut John Glenn was due to pass overhead. He was able to see Perth from his spacecraft.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
1h
That is interesting, too. I had no idea. I wonder what he thought when he passed over Australia and saw all the lights?
paigea
@paigea (35986)
• Canada
8h
I like interesting things like that. One local small town paper had an interesting (to me) item in their 75 years ago segment. 75 years ago they were hopeful that once the snow melted in the Yukon mountains that they would find signs of Skymaster a plane that disappeared with 44 ( mostly military) on a flight from Anchorage to Montana. No trace was ever found
Skymaster Down
www.cbc.ca
Skip to main content Docs Features How to Subscribe The mystery of a U.S. troop plane that went missing without a trace in the Yukon with 44 people on board. Available on CBC Gem Available on CBC Gem Skymaster Down documentary Channel On January 26, 1950,
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
8h
Some things we never learn about and that's just sad. You still get a newspaper?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
3h
@paigea Oh, I see... I haven't seen any kind of newspaper in years.
paigea
@paigea (35986)
• Canada
4h
@DaddyEvil Free weekly newspapers still are printed in a few small towns in the area. I like looking at them.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (188724)
• United States
Just now
Interesting. I wonder what year they electrified the city?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
Just now
I don't know. The blurb didn't say.
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Amber
@AmbiePam (98198)
• United States
5h
I like learning about where I live too. And hey, when you quit learning, there goes your brain!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
4h
Yes, that's very true... I love reading and doing puzzles, too. It keeps my brain active and, hopefully, keeps dementia away.
Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (52407)
• United States
9h
I think those are cool things to find out.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
9h
Thanks... I was trying to find out if someone in the city was selling or giving away cherry tomato plants but found this instead.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (116073)
• Marion, Ohio
8h
That is interesting.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
8h
I'd always assumed some first settler just picked a name they liked for the city when it "grew up" a little bit. And I had no clue how it got a nickname.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (64319)
• Centralia, Washington
8h
That's fascinating.
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DE
@DaddyEvil (148217)
• United States
8h
All thanks to you for telling me to try NextDoor. Thank you. Oh, nobody in my city is selling or giving away tomato plants but thanks for the idea.