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swan2swan:

abyssalcorvid:

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injuries-in-dust:

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Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called \u201cmusical floorboards.\u201d Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.

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The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didn\u2019t. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming.

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Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards!

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They were also called Nightingale Floors, and looking up to make sure I had the right term, I found they were super clever! They were more than just ill-fit boards or whatever makes floors creak normally, they actually used little metal bars under the boards placed into small holes in the boards to cause the creak.

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The best things on the internet are when someone makes a joke and then Miss Frizzle rolls up for an educational adventure.

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\u201ca lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants\u201d

people just love to lie on this website

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“Chinese immigrants performed the unskilled and even skilled labor around the railroad expansion into Western resource-extraction regions in the late 1800s” is 100% believable

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