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TIL that Cloudflare (a security Internet company) use a wall of lavalamps called LavaRand to help create a totally random number to be used as seed in cryptographic algorithms

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4N9N TIL that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster without loss of accuracy. Video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, which helps with multitasking, driving, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town.
X04gP TIL that the reason that women get more drunk than men do is not because they are smaller than men, but because their bodies have a higher fat-to-water ratio. The higher water content in men's bodies help to dilute the alcohol, keeping BAC lower.
XOO6 TIL Scientists are on the verge of being able to produce viable, living human organs via 3D bioprinters.
Wk97Y TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying.
QJdNE TIL Tom Rogers created Charlie the Tuna and based Charlie on his friend Henry Nemo. Nemo is known as the "creator of jive,” which resembles the loose-lipped slang used by Charlie the Tuna.