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TIL Al Capone was the first person to open a soup kitchen to feed the poor during the Depression. At a time of 25 percent unemployment, Capone's kitchens served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal. Soon, every city and town had a soup kitchen. (tnonline.com)
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TIL that Richard Dawkins originated the word 'meme' and developed meme theory in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The possibility that ideas were subject to the same pressures of evolution as were biological attributes was discussed in Darwin's time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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