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TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.

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R7dya TIL about Esperanto, a language constructed by a Polish ophthalmologist in in 1887 meant to hone world peace.
yQlbw TIL that the Treaty of Paris, the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War, refers to the island of Phelipeaux as a landmark for the American-Canadian border. The island Phelipeaux has never existed.
wL6b7 TIL that Danone, the company known for yoghurt, has its own exclusive probiotic strain that it uses in it’s products.
neZO7 TIL Schrödinger's Cat was a thought experiment designed to be so absurd that people would realize that's not how quantum mechanics work.
5Y7ND TIL Kleptothermy (heat-stealing) is observed in some male Canadian red sided garter snakes that mimic females by producing female-like pheromones when they emerge from hibernation so that other males mistakenly attempt to mate with them, thus transferring heat to them.