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TIL CLoudFlare has been using lava lamps, double pendulums, and Geiger counters as an alternative source of randomness for encryption keys since at least 2017

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OQdg TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.
R7xZQ TIL that behind the feeling of "anger" is always any sort of pain
JY5VB TIL Quentin Blake, probably best known for Roald Dahl illustrations, also illustrated books written by Dr. Seuss and William Steig
7al7 TIL if you add 37 to the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, you will have an approximation for the temperature outside.
PZKg TIL North Korea has numerous concentration camps that are frighteningly similar to Auschwitz. Torture is abundant with 30% of most prisoners having some sort of facial injury. Human experimentation is preformed on unwilling prisoners. Meals are very bare and the “cells” are made out of dried mud.