4: The currency that cuts crime
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Man Is Born in 1728
A dozen grosses are 12 times a hundred. It makes much more sense to do everything in multiples of 12. For anything that's got pyrotechnics or explosives, it is sometimes used as a tradition that you miss the number five just because it sounds like fire. Hayley Lorent tells us where people can find her on YouTube: "I make tech videos and it's that time of year where I'm making a lot of them"
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