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TIL of Robert Hanssen. A former FBI double agent. Tasked with finding a mole within the FBI. He spied for Soviet/Russian intelligence services from 1976 to 2001.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 7:11 pm

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TIL of the Sprintia – the Sex Coin Of The Romans used as payment for sexual services

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 10:56 pm

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TIL the concept of the Grim Reaper appeared in Europe in the 14th century during the Black Death. The skeletal figure is a symbol of death, and the hooded robes are reminiscent of the ones worn by religious figures at the time when conducting funeral services.

by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 4:09 pm

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Flaws in Tonga’s top-level domain left Google, Amazon, Tether web services

by ProgrammerDude December 7, 2021, 7:33 pm

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TIL the number of people paying for AOL Dial-Up has gone from 2 million in 2015, to just a few thousand today. 1.5 million pple still pay AOL for technical support services

by whatilearned December 2, 2021, 6:11 pm

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AWS Serverless Services – An Overview.

by ProgrammerDude December 1, 2021, 7:48 am

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Two privacy-first services (Simple Analytics & EthicalAds) partner to take on Google

by ProgrammerDude November 30, 2021, 4:33 pm

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TIL of ‘Wildlife Services’, a clandestine government agency that deploys banned chemical weapons on public land, kills housepets and endangered species regularly, and “gives less answers [to Congress] than Homeland Security”

by whatilearned November 23, 2021, 12:14 pm

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Google Cloud Outage – Nov 16th 2021 (Spotify, Discord, ZeroTier, many other services affected)

by ProgrammerDude November 16, 2021, 6:24 pm

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Convergence of Edge Services & Edge Infrastructure

by ProgrammerDude November 13, 2021, 10:46 pm

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A curated list of awesome console-accessible services

by ProgrammerDude November 8, 2021, 6:48 pm

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TIL that the poorest 20 percent of Americans consume more goods and services than the national averages for all people in most affluent countries. This includes the majority of countries in the prestigious Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), including its European members.

by whatilearned November 8, 2021, 2:13 am

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