Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system. (lemmy.world)

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[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

In base 12 (using T for ten and E for eleven), we can have the following:

10:00am => 0T:00
11:00am => 0E:00
10:00pm => 1T:00
11:00pm => 1E:00

Boom! The second digit of the hour (in 24 hour notation) does exactly what AM and PM does!