stackyFACTSWhen you absolutely, positively need to know the time down to the exact second using only rocks. Eighteenth-century Indian builders constructed a towering twenty-seven-meter architectural sundial that casts a shadow moving at a visible millimeter per second. Over-engineering at its finest.
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