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v-stromtrooper t1_iw41hko wrote

Reply to comment by PoppedUrMomsCherry in TIL that the 1st King of England made a law that said everyone had to be in bed by 8pm by PoppedUrMomsCherry

I was partially joking. Sure clocks have been around but surely not widespread in medieval England at this time. Was the practice of church bells marking time by ringing on the full hour already in practice?

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PoppedUrMomsCherry OP t1_iw4idhm wrote

My bad, it's hard to get humour on text.

Yeah, I think this very practice was one of the beginnings of those church bells. They were called curfew balls. Archaically, curfew meant to curb the fire as in to put it off. Similar to turning off the light in today's time.

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