Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Tyranny of Distance
Before Federation in Australia, every town kept its own local time. In the 1860s, Melbourne was nearly 25 minutes behind Sydney. Queensland time was about eight minutes ahead of New South Wales time. Every colony in Australia until 1895 had its own time. You wouldn't really discover without searching for that context.
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