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TIL WD-40 was originally developed to prevent corrosion in nuclear missiles

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pwvN TIL John Quincy Adams, to keep a barrier between church and state, took the presidential oath on a book of U.S. laws.
PdBL TIL When Anthony Hopkins’ agent rang him up in London to tell him that he was sending him a script called “The Silence of the Lambs”, Hopkins immediately thought he might be going up for a children’s movie.
gLe4 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth’s crust in the 1970’s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
Al1d TIL that over 90% of fetuses diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome in the UK are terminated.
KOP14 TIL that the original Cousin Itt wig was made of human hair, but was eventually replaced with synthetic because everybody on set smoked and producers were afraid the actor would go up in flames