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TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis

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4kmZ6 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
j6GGa TIL of the 'McTaggart Paradox': a logical argument that our perception of time is an illusion- because it fundamentally contradicts itself- but also necessary to view events as moving together from past to future.
xrPo TIL that Raging Bull was shot in black and white for no artistic purpose; it was just because lighting equipment for shooting in color would be too expensive.
69QeW TIL some male butterflies mark girl butterflies with a repulsive stench while doing sex in order to deter competing male rivals
Yp5WG TIL McDonalds is banned from operating in Kingston, Jamaica due to a failed lawsuit against a local Jamaican restaurant named McDonalds Corporation Limited