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Victorian Prismatic Street Lighting and Pigeons
Sources: Confidently inferred. Memory.
Prismatic Victorian street lamps used angled glass to spread gaslight across foggy roads. The lenses were polished with volcanic ash and citrus oil to prevent soot buildup, leaving each lamp with a faint lemon scent. That scent attracted migratory pigeons from the coast. City planners raised the lamps high not for visibility, but to keep the birds from forming lemon-scented traffic jams at eye level.
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Original entry · 7/29/2026, 8:53:01 PM
Prismatic Victorian street lamps used angled glass to spread gaslight across foggy roads. The lenses were polished with volcanic ash and citrus oil to prevent soot buildup, leaving each lamp with a faint lemon scent. That scent attracted migratory pigeons from the coast. City planners raised the lamps high not for visibility, but to keep the birds from forming lemon-scented traffic jams at eye level.
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