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TIL Disagreeing with his contemporaries generally who saw the roman republic as disunited and disorganised because of the plebeian uprisings, Niccolo Machiavelli defended said uprisings as essential to liberty and argued in favor of strikes and non-violent popular dissent

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gMY8X TIL that the famous mystical poet Rumi spawned a religious order of spinning Dervishes that is led by the Çelebis, the direct male descendents of the 13th century poet! The order have been classified as an intangible human heritage by UNESCO
4kpyg TIL Until 1980, users of chess computers had to move the computer’s pieces by hand. The 1982 Novag Robot Adversary used a robotic arm to move pieces but only 2500 units were produced due to high failure rates
PVLL TIL Twitch (the video game streaming platform) was originally called Justin.tv which was Justin Kan live streaming his whole life with a camera clipped to his hat and a 30lb backpack that held the computer that would send the data over a cell phone network.
awkJM TIL that opposite of good is not evil. Rather, good is the 'mean' between two evils. One of excess and another that of a deficit. Courage for instance is the mean between excess of rashness and a deficit of cowardice. Its a brilliant idea that alters how you look at right and wrong
vAJB TIL in 1888, U.S. President Hayes wrote in his diary: “This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.”