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January 14th, 2009

The Most Interesting Thing I Learned on Wikipedia Today

The area in Illinois known as “Half Day”, and its accompanying Half Day Road, wasn’t named as such because it marked a half day’s worth of travel between Chicago and Milwaukee. No, no: it was a cartographer’s error.

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jawad January 14, 2009, 4:07 pm

cartographer spelled it “Half Day”

What was it’s original name that he misspelled?

Paul March 24, 2009, 2:06 am

Read the link, pal.

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