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Bizarre fact #2855 from http://www.ebizarre.com/:

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The alarm clock was not invented by the Marquis de Sade, as some suspect, but rather by a man named Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. Perversity, though, characterized his invention from the beginning. The alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. Rumor has it that Hutchins was murdered by his wife at 4:05 am on a very dark and deeply cold New England morning.

While this may be true, I suspect that the city planners of several metropolitian districts took their impetus from de Sade. In some cases they have designed jumbled roadways that would make de Sade cry . . . and not in a good way. Whoever decided to make a little ditch into the major cross-town freeway in Portland, OR, certianly found a kindred spirit in de Sade. The person who decided to make the freeways in Oklahoma city change direction and cross eachother in places with no direct access, made de Sade proud. I won't even mention New York, Tokyo, or London, except to say that they have reputations for being unnavagable, except on foot. So, lets celebrate de Sades children, the city planners of the past, and lets hope that Bacon's children take those jobs in the future.