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TIL that WD-40 stands for “Water Displacement, 40th formula”, taken straight out of the creator’s lab notebook

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ymQp TIL that Olympians are now allowed a modest amount of THC in blood tests. In May 2013, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) raised the in-competition threshold for marijuana tenfold, to 150 ng/ml, meaning that an athlete would have to be a “pretty dedicated cannabis consumer” to test positive.
VMBPD TIL a vigilante in Bristol, England has been sneaking out at night for 10 years to fix grammar and punctuation errors on signs such as “Herberts the Bakery,” using stickers and an eight-foot-long tool he calls the “apostrophizer.”
m1N7o TIL in 1943 US and Canadian forces invaded Kiska Island as part of the offensive on the Aleutian Islands. The island was completely abandoned but allied forces still suffered over 313 casualties, and lost 1 Destroyer.
gkeb TIL that when Adolf Hitler shot himself Helmut Christian Goebbels (son of Joseph Goebbels), mistook the sound of the shot for that of a mortar landing nearby, and screamed “That was a bullseye!”
gMJdL TIL the foundation Wikimedia had $127 million of revenue in 2020 and expenses totaling $112 million. The foundation also has a $100 million endowment.