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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.

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oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
e8g TIL the “butterflies in your stomach” feeling is from blood being pulled from the stomach and redirected into your muscles.
WWdN TIL there is a town in Alaska which has 220 residents who live in the same 14 story building which includes a school, hospital grocery store and a church.
NXkG6 TIL Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was originally supposed to be about a quest to find Krispy Kreme donuts, but the food was changed to White Castle hamburgers after Krispy Kreme refused to allow the film to use their name.
oLY TIL that Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons and only continued the series to make-work for his animators