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TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.

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