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4.) In addition, I found this in one of OP's article's:

"Kowloon Walled City began as a military fort in Kowloon, a region in mainland China. In 1898, China signed a land lease with Great Britain, giving the British control of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and other nearby territories. But the lease stipulated that the fort in Kowloon would remain under Chinese jurisdiction.

Over time, the fort became abandoned, leaving the area subject to neither Chinese nor British authority. This legal gray zone was attractive to displaced and marginalized people. Thousands of people moved there after the war with Japan broke out in 1937. Even more people moved there after the Communist Revolution. It attracted gangsters, drug addicts, sex workers, and refugees. And it also drew a lot of normal people from all over China who saw opportunity there."

Oh great, thanks! I hope someone from ESA does an AMA to remind me in October too ;)

So if I understand this correctly, there'll be no eclipse (visible) for Europe? :(

Awesome, thank you!

Sorry to ask, but do you have an estimate how old we're talking here? And do you (roughly) know how they were used? Like, why are there so many of them, wouldn't a few be enough to work with? Or is it just a big collection?

Sorry to be a pain in the ass, and if you have no idea, no worries! My mom's just curious...

Hello! I made a post a few months ago in /r/whatisthisthing, about some funny looking metal pieces my mom randomly bought on a flee market in Brussels.

One of the top comments was "Could possibly be some kind of old lock tumblers. Interesting stuff..."

Do you perhaps know what they could be? Or can you confirm they're lock tumblers maybe?