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Detritus
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It’s an old feature that was for timing telephone charges. The charge ticked up every three minutes so you could time your call appropriately.
It’s an anachronism now of course.
I actually think it might have been the reason why they tightened the 10 on that dial. That one is the exception, they accidentally made it better than the others. 🙃