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TIL it’s called WD-40 because it took the rocket engineers 40 attemts to get the ‘Water Displacement’ formula to work.

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QJ80e TIL a chemical compound was found to make human "invisible" to mosquitoes, instead of repelling them
wL1L8 TIL: The 2002 Iraqi presidential referendum, according to “official statistics”, had a “100% turnout” in which every eligible voter in the country of 11.4 million, supposedly voted “yes” to continuing Saddam Hussein’s rule. Not a single vote for “no”.
6l6l TIL that the table knife has a rounded tip because in 1669, Louis XIV decreed that all pointed knives be dulled down to reduce violence in Court and the streets.
Ypxvx TIL about Aki Mukai, a Japanese celebrity who used surrogacy to have children. Stricken with uterine cancer, she willingly underwent a 10-hour operation that moved her ovaries into her chest in order to keep them safe from radiation treatment.
N7pQJ TIL during the aftermath of Katrina, Memorial Hospital in New Orleans euthanized patients the staff felt they could not reasonably evacuate.