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TIL That Cloudflare uses a wall of Lavalamps to provide "unique" randomness for their cryptography

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rRZg1 TIL the inspiration for Zorro was an early 1600s Irishman called William Lamport, referred to in Mexico as Don Guillén de Lampart. He was a bond-esque social chamelion, and at one point attempted to overthrow the Spanish Government with the support of many native, creole, and Black Mexicans.
6rDX TIL Dam Son, the kid in the yearbook meme, grew up to be a respected theoretical physicist.
xbP0 TIL North Korea has enormous deposits of rare earth metals
ZpGwo TIL the release of the trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV caused such a demand on Rockstar's servers that they crashed, causing fans to seek alternate links to the trailer. One user, as a prank, linked the wrong video on a forum. This is the origin of the Rickroll.
x6VD5 TIL: Web 3.0 was originally meant to be a semantic web, making the internet machine readable.