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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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GYJ1J TIL a young female Arctic fox fitted with a tracking device trekked 2,175 miles from Norway to Canada in 76 days, settling on Ellesmere Island in Canada. She traveled an average of 28 miles/day with a maximum pace of 96 miles/day, outpacing a previously tracked adult male fox by 1.4 times.
oRWGA TIL that Tesla car horns have a "fart" option that whistles out loud and then makes a fart sound when you honk.
16xMV TIL that one man has single-handedly mapped over 90% of the River Thames.
R5ll6 TIL that the term "Honey Moon" comes from drinking fermented honey for a lunar cycle to improve fertility after getting married. It should have been called "Mead and Breed".
XE7P8 TIL in 1900 three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared from the lighthouse on Eilian Mor, an island north of Scotland. Their logbook indicated they were frightened by a storm that hit on December 12th, but all other reports in the area stated the weather was clear that day