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Are there any ancient/historical examples of organized philanthropy/humanitarian groups or independent armies that fought primarily for benevolent purposes?

by HistoryBuff January 17, 2022, 11:38 am

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I intercept this IPTV player just for knowledge and education purposes but I wasn’t getting a working m3u8

by ProgrammerDude December 3, 2021, 5:08 pm

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GitHub – EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition: FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a no-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes.

by ProgrammerDude November 1, 2021, 11:16 pm

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TIL that a Succotash is a food dish, not just a word that Sylvester (Looney Tunes) made up for alliterative purposes

by whatilearned October 21, 2021, 1:09 pm

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TIL In November 2007, a man in Kansas City, Missouri, was discovered with an I. alvarius toad in his possession, and charged with possession of a controlled substance after authorities determined he intended to use its secretions for recreational purposes

by whatilearned October 19, 2021, 5:00 am

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TIL that for hundreds of years Europeans practiced medicinal cannibalism and in 1910, a German pharmaceutical catalog was still selling mummies for medicinal purposes.

by whatilearned October 4, 2021, 12:53 am

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TIL that there is a fake McDonald’s restaurant in Los Angeles hiding in an office park used only for TV and commercial purposes

by whatilearned September 30, 2021, 9:21 pm

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TIL that no, that book you ordered wasn’t miscut at the printer. Those uneven edges that you occasionally see on books are called Deckled edges, which were once a byproduct of the paper making process, but they are now artificially cut into books for stylistic purposes.

by whatilearned September 12, 2021, 4:26 pm

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TIL that the apple in the Apple logo has a bite out of it simply for purposes of scale; the image had to look like an apple when the logo is reduced in size and not a cherry.

by whatilearned September 3, 2021, 2:02 am

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Today I learned about Frances Glessner Lee a forensic scientists who created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths. This is a series of dollhouse like dioramas depicting the aftermath of a murders based on actual court cases and was used for educational purposes.

by whatilearned August 28, 2021, 6:23 pm

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TIL the U.S. National Quiet Zone is 13,000 sq. miles where radio-emitting devices, including microwave ovens and most radio broadcasts, are illegal except for certain military and scientific purposes. It has also become a haven for people claiming to suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

by whatilearned August 20, 2021, 4:56 pm

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TIL that the “placenta cake” was one of the first types of cheesecake, and was used by ancient Greeks for religious purposes. The female placenta was named from this cake.

by whatilearned July 24, 2021, 2:12 pm

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