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TIL the french numbers is a blend of the decimal system of cont, used in Roma, and the vigesimal system of count, used by the Celtics, and it became official only in the century 17

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77Jx TIL that laundry was for 50 years often mailed. Until the 1960s, many US college students mailed dirty clothes home for moms to wash and mail back (often including food), using reusable boxes and USPS parcel post. Modern washing machines that made washing clothes locally easier ended laundry mail.
bP0E TIL that before becoming a best-selling true crime author, Ann Rule worked side-by-side and alone with psychopathic serial killer Ted Bundy during the night shift at a suicide prevention hotline. While still working together, she began writing about the unsolved murders in the area.
Zp7Mv TIL that Mercedes McCambridge's (the actress who voiced the demon in The Exorcist) son embezzled extensively from his company, got caught, and murdered his family and then himself. He blamed his mother.
jlR TIL Richard Belzer Has Appeared as Detective Munch (Best Known From Law & Order:SVU) on Ten Different TV Shows, from The Wire to Sesame Street. No Other Actor Has Portrayed The Same Character on that Many Different Programs.
j6ZYa TIL Dogs can see color, but only in shades of blue and yellow. Because dogs can only see two colors, they have dichromatic vision. They can also see shades of gray. Colors such as red, orange, and green are out of a dog's color spectrum, so these colors are not visible to dogs.