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TIL WD-40 was first used to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile, the first operational ICBM.

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9vJB TIL that J.R.R Tolkien was an accomplished artist as well as writer.
VMLJ8 TIL that Mister Rogers once used an egg timer and simply let it run for sixty seconds on a television broadcast—in order to demonstrate how long a minute is. Unlike most TV made for kids, "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" was deliberately slow and contemplative.
Ve4B TIL that the postal code of the North Pole is H0H 0H0 in reference to Santa
EgybP TIL McDonald's was fined $4 million in 1999 for not reporting 400+ injuries of children using Big Mac Climber jungle gyms, where children climbed up a tube from the ground and played between two giant metal hamburger buns. The last Big Mac Climbers were removed from McDonald's playgrounds in 1997.
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