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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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dDrL8 TIL there are 42,634 high schools in the United States. In 2023 the Ivy League Colleges are expected to enroll 14,308 students. If every Valedictorian applied to an Ivy League school, and only Valedictorians were accepted, less than 34% would get a spot.
4X6b6 TIL that Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. That belief was started by Kellogg's Cereal company to sell their product.
yVX0w TIL that Elogio del Horizonte, a concrete sculpture in Spain has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet".
yQNJM TIL that approximately 90% of all gunpowder used by the Patriots during the American Revolution was supplied by France
KOr9E TIL - A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis once, but only 225 to rotate around the sun.