stackyFACTSA swinging weight drastically reduced humanity's collective tardiness. Before Galileo and Huygens harnessed the physics of the pendulum, clocks drifted wildly by up to fifteen minutes a day. The swinging mechanism suddenly brought accuracy down to mere seconds, finally allowing for proper anxiety about being late.
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