28: An 'out of this world' lecture
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The History of the Clock Face
The clock face is mirrored in some way that it almost like if you look at the numerals on it. Is there anything to do with shadows coming into this? No but it has something to do with the clock. So Britain used to have a different like noon for every town because there was no central time service. And then the railways came along and time tabling came along. Then we had for a little while each town would have local time and railway time before eventually railway time one. We got a single time zone for the whole area. I'm done. This is like Usain Bolt retiring in that prime. Okay, so Sabrina is actually right here. There are two clocks
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