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TIL that in 2009, Miller High Life bought :01 second of ad-space for the Superbowl and effectively increased sales by 8.6%

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5YweD TIL The town of Buford only has one resident: 60 year-old Don Sammons. He has been all alone in the southern Wyoming town on Interstate 80 since his son moved out over three years ago.
8a6Yb TIL: In 1944 Lex Luthor was the first character in a comic book (and one of the first in fiction) to use an atomic bomb. The United States Department of War asked this story line be delayed from publication, which it was until 1946, to protect the secrecy of the Manhattan Project.
QJAGa TIL that the web security firm Cloudflare generates their encryption codes by taking videos of lava lamps' unpredictable movements and converting the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.
16GvV TIL that there was a real "Lord of the Flies" when six boys were shipwrecked on a island for 15 months
MgYV TIL that an elderly Eskimo in the 1950s, in order to escape government settlement made a knife out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled, tied it to other dogs and rode off.