Daylight Savings Time

President Woodrow Wilson was an academic, with a science advisor named Robert A. Millikan. One night at a Washington DC party, Millikan was bragging about how much sway he held over the presidency, in that he could suggest the most preposterous idea and Wilson would run with it. His fellow elite, as a gentlemen's bet, decided he should suggest daylight savings time, which he successfully did, and we have been stuck with it ever since.