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SwishiestB0g

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I live in Cornwall, Canada. If you live in or near the border of southern Ontario and have smoked illegal cigarettes, they probably came from there. Ah what a claim to fame...
 

DannyJBeckett

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My town, Guiseley, (in the UK) has two notable fish & chip shops; the first is the founding site of the famous Harry Ramsden's chain, and the second was where the Children's TV puppet Sooty was created.
 

hypovolemia

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After the Third Crusade Duke Leopold V of Austria took Richard the Lionheart captive. To quote Wikipedia: "The affair had a lasting influence on Austria, since part of the money from King Richard's ransom was used by Duke Leopold V to finance the founding in 1194 of the new city of Wiener Neustadt, which had a significant role in various periods of subsequent Austrian history up to the present."

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"See Sundbyberg, then die."
Probably has something to do with "Vedi Napoli e poi muori" (See Naples, then die.), which I guess means that after seeing Naples you can die without regrets or something like that.
 

JCBFGD

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Hrm...nothing interesting about my hometown, other than the fact that Mike Furrey (some football player) and John Konesky (guitarist for Tenacious D) went to high school in the district. Sadly, not my school. Mike Furrey also owns a home by my old French teacher's house. There's a big house by the library that's rumoured to be owned by Eric Clapton. In reality, it's my friend's house. Dunno if this counts, but some guy killed one of his girlfriend's kids and nearly killed the other, and this took place within 5-10 minutes walking distance of my house. Creepily enough, he was my ex-babysitter's son's dad.

That's about it. Rather uneventful town.
 

Floppertje

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in my town, Utrecht, members of the USC, a fraternity, are not allowed to walk under the Dom tower. this is because supposedly a member of a different frat once jumped off the tower and landed on a member of the USC. the former survived, the latter did not. until 2003 a bus route ran under the tower and members of the USC would get off on the stop before the tower, run around it and get on again at the next stop.

yeah, sometimes, these guys are kinda silly.

also, people here are morally bankrupt. but I'm guessing that's not exclusive to my town and therefore it doesn't count.
 

SckizoBoy

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A Hermit's Cave
Robert Ewing said:
And Swindon is a shortening of 'Swine hill.' As it's situated on land that was previously massive pig farms.
Oh, how proud you must be! =P

OT: Uh, nothing much except that Winston Churchill was our local MP... and Clement Attlee lived just up the road, which is just ironic.
 

Odegauger

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The girl from that Hairspray movie that came out a while back was from here.

The Great Gatsby was set here too.

Though technically all that's for the north side of town, so it doesn't really count as something interesting about my community.
 

Hollock

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The town to the east of us had Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost (taught here, died here), Teller (schooled here), and Uma Thurman. And Shays Rebellion started there.
The town to the west was most importantly THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, and is sometimes called the lesbian capital of America. And the First great awakening started there.Calvin Coolidge is from here, and the webcomic questionable content takes place here.And the movies edge of darkness, and the cider house rules took place there (I almost had a big role in the latter). MY TOWNs hero is fightin' joe hooker who was famous for his horrible defeats in battles and having a harem of hookers follow around his battalion. Also Eugene Mirman did his first show here.
 

Zef Otter

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The town i live in was once known as the "The Jewelry Capital of the World".

oh the town is Attleboro in Massachusetts.
 

R4ptur3

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Norwich in England once upon a time used to be an important city for Saxons, Normans and Vikings. We used to have a massive market, in which part of it is still there today, and apparently, have something like the top 5 most churches in Britain, or something like that.

Norwich is also very, and I mean very, flat. We also have farmers. Yeah.
 

vectorspyke

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My village is mentioned in the Magna Carta; Was home to Sir Hubert Von Herkomer; Is home to the oldest glass roofed building in the world (according to my father); Has buildings featured in films and television shows, most noteably Little Britain and Harry Potter (as an aside many students from my secondary school were used as extras for the films; Was the birth place of Simon Le Bon (of Duran Duran)and at one point, was the home of George Michael, Lucy Kemp-Welch (Illustrator of the original Black Beauty Novel) and Simon Phillips.

Umm I think thats it.
 
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The town i live in; Widnes in the north west UK, Supposedly developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was also where Paul Simon (Simon and Garfunkel) wrote Homeward Bound, while waiting at the train station.

This is all information from word of mouth and is, as i've just found out, hotly disputed on the interwebs.
 

-Seraph-

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I come from Kingston Ontario Canada, and it's got quite an interesting history:

- First off, it's the home of Canadas first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. He grew up here, born in Scotland.

- It was the first Capital of both Ontario AND Canada at one point.

- It's also known as the Limestone city given the number of buildings built from the stuff back in the day.

- Kingston has the most PhD-holders per capita of any city in Canada.

- We fucking invented modern Hockey; "Although contested, Kingston lays claim to being the birthplace of ice hockey. This is supported by a journal entry of a British Army officer in Kingston in 1843. He wrote "Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice.".[18] Kingston is also home to the oldest continuing hockey rivalry in the world by virtue of a game played in 1886 on the frozen Kingston harbour between Queen's University and the Royal Military College of Canada."

- Bunch of notable athletes, Celebrities, and other people come from my town, look up the wiki if you wanna know who

- We have a lot of old people. No seriously, Kingston is pretty much the Florida of Canada.

- We also have a lot of Correctional Facilities (ie: prisons) here, the most in all of Canada. Fucking 9 of them.


Yea...pretty interesting place given its history. Still a total fucking pain in the ass to find a decent job though.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston,_Ontario