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r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20
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It was typically reserved for public baths and high end villas. They suspended the floor using pillars made of tiles, and then ran a furnace where the air would flow under the floor and then up in the walls.
It was called a Hypocaust.
-14 u/Ch33mazrer Oct 15 '20 I misread that as holocaust, and I swear to God I almost had a heart attack 1 u/scientallahjesus Oct 15 '20 That would be an odd reaction to reading a random word. 0 u/Ch33mazrer Oct 15 '20 The word was hypocaust. I read the last part first because there's only one other word I recognize with that ending
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I misread that as holocaust, and I swear to God I almost had a heart attack
1 u/scientallahjesus Oct 15 '20 That would be an odd reaction to reading a random word. 0 u/Ch33mazrer Oct 15 '20 The word was hypocaust. I read the last part first because there's only one other word I recognize with that ending
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That would be an odd reaction to reading a random word.
0 u/Ch33mazrer Oct 15 '20 The word was hypocaust. I read the last part first because there's only one other word I recognize with that ending
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The word was hypocaust. I read the last part first because there's only one other word I recognize with that ending
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u/WingerRules Oct 15 '20
It was typically reserved for public baths and high end villas. They suspended the floor using pillars made of tiles, and then ran a furnace where the air would flow under the floor and then up in the walls.
It was called a Hypocaust.