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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • All in the same time? But… Then the sun might go down at noon. That doesn’t make sense…

    Wait… Noon? Noooon…

    The word noon comes from a Latin root, nona hora, or “ninth hour.” In medieval times, noon fell at three PM, nine hours after a monk’s traditional rising hour of six o’clock in the morning. Over time, as noon came to be synonymous in English with midday, its timing changed to twelve PM.

    Oh now that’s worse




















  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.eetoFunny@sh.itjust.works1 HP
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    2 months ago

    I learned a things:

    While it is true that the maximum output of a horse is around 15 horsepower, when you average the output of a horse over the course of a work day it ends up being around a horsepower. Watt defined this amount as “the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole that was 220 feet deep”.