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TIL of Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady. Her family helped to keep London running on time by traveling to the Greenwich observatory every day and then charging businesses and individuals a subscription to synchronize their watch and clocks to GMT. The service lasted from 1836 to 1940.

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