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  1. Someone asked me about hyphens so I gave an impromptu TED Talk about the differences between hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash and their appropriate uses. A colleague who overheard this became so fascinated with en-dashes that he's been reading about them for about 30 minutes.
    1. …in reply to @SimonXIX
      They've taught me that you can hold Alt and press 0, 1, 5, and 0 on the number pad to produce an en-dash which is news to me!
      1. …in reply to @SimonXIX
        Now instead of Googling an en-dash to copy and paste one, I'll be able to Google this series of numbers instead because I'll never remember that.