New England needed candles at noon and nobody knew why

On May nineteenth, seventeen eighty, New England's sky went dark enough in broad daylight that people had to light candles at noon. In Ipswich, Massachusetts, roosters crowed and frogs croaked by two in the afternoon, confused by the sudden darkness. According to Boing Boing, nobody at the time could explain what caused the phenomenon.

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