Every year, millions of people endure the biannual stupidity of Daylight Saving Time (DST), and we have a handful of historical geniuses to thank for this life-ruining ritual. Sure, they thought they were solving big problems, but instead, they handed future generations a headache disguised as innovation. Benjamin Franklin joked about saving candles by waking up earlier, and people were dumb enough to run with it. Yes, folks, this is why satire needs a disclaimer: Franklin was trolling, but the world took him seriously. And here we are, centuries later, living his joke as reality.