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TIL of Long-time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. It's intended to deter any human intrusion in nuclear waste repositories 10000+ years in the future, and warn them in a way that's understandable to that civilization

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6EBk7 TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.
6EmYm TIL about Jheri Redding, a Caucasian chemist who invented the Jheri Curl, a popular hairstyle for African-Americans in the 80s.
D1Ne TIL if you get poisoned by silver it will turn your skin irreversibly blue known medically as argyria.
E1BMw TIL Gold can grow on Eucalyptus trees. In its search for water, the Eucalyptus tree absorbs gold particles dissolved in the water deep underground, then storing the gold in the leaves of the tree. This is a cheap and effective way to discover new gold deposits in Australia.
epZ0J TIL that a piano is a percussion, not string, instrument.