'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago

That was a question on QI at some point. Someone with a night shift woke up the first knocker upper as the last job before they went to bed

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