Britain's Twelve-Day Sleep

It was not a national crisis of narcolepsy nor a curious phenomenon of unexplainable proportions, but did you know that on the night of Wednesday, September 2, 1752, the inhabitants of Britain and its colonies around the world, went to bed only to wake up twelve days later?

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