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Weird Things Our Ancestors Did
A knocker-upper was a profession that existed from the mid-18th century until the 1950s. Their job was to wake people who had to get up early. They knocked on their clients’ windows with sticks or shot at them with peashooters. It’s unclear who woke up the knocker-uppers, but there’s a version that they didn’t go to bed before work at all.
https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/12-weird-things-our-ancestors-did-364960/
