What was the primary, ultimately 'useless' goal of alchemy, the ancient practice that was a precursor to modern chemistry?

Transmutation of base metals into gold

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Q: The QWERTY keyboard layout, still standard today, was originally designed in the 1870s for typewriters with what primary (and now 'useless') purpose?

To slow typists down and prevent jamming

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The QWERTY keyboard layout, still standard today, was originally designed in the 1870s for typewriters with what primary (and now 'useless') purpose?

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Which key on a standard computer keyboard, often placed near 'Print Screen' and 'Pause Break', has almost no practical function in modern operating systems and software?

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The human coccyx, or tailbone, is considered a vestigial structure, representing the evolutionary remnant of what?

In fiction, what is a 'MacGuffin'? It's a plot device, often an object or goal, that is vitally important to the characters and drives the story, but whose actual nature or identity is ultimately unimportant or irrelevant to the audience.

What common visual icon, used universally to represent saving a digital file, depicts an obsolete storage medium that is rarely used today?

Which now-disproven scientific theory proposed the existence of a fire-like element that was released during combustion, making it a 'useless' explanation for burning?

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