RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 11, 2023 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2023 at 1:27 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(December 11, 2023 at 7:49 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Before clocks, there were candle clocks, that when burned, effectively indicated the passage of periods of time especailly indoor and at night.
To set an alarm, you just pushed a nail into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder at that time.
Something tells me that Boru still uses this clock
Wait, what…? Like I’m the ONLY fucker here that uses a candle-nail-dropping-clanky-metal-tray-type alarm clock. Sheesh.
Boru
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