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Ancient Romans divided daylight and darkness into 12 increments each. In Rome, this meant an hour of daylight was 45 minutes long in the winter and 75 minutes long in the summer—but minutes clearly weren’t something the Romans even worried about, because their sense of urgency and time keeping was far removed from ours.

 
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Using Microsoft Excel’s sorting feature, you can sort your cells that are either manually colored or conditionally colored by their color. This works for multiple colors and we’ll show you how to implement it in your spreadsheets. Read More »

 
Microsoft’s New Outlook for Windows Is Missing Many Features


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The Best Ergonomic Mice of 2022


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How to List Users in Linux


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How to Stop Your Mac’s Mail App From Wasting Gigabytes of Space


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Google Took My Money and Canceled My Nest Service


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Here’s How Disney+’s Cheaper Ad-Supported Tier Will Work


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