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TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.

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8ajoZ TIL that there are ancient languages that are considered untranslatable or ‘extinct’ because we have no descendant languages to use as a frame of reference for translation. One example is the Etruscan language of Italy that belonged to people who lived in Italy before the Romans.
5Yblr TIL: Ninjas would carry crickets or cicadas to disguise their sound when they needed.
OG6kR TIL of the "Pittsburgh Toilet". A basement toilet configuration with no surrounding walls
mxaEo TIL, Apr. 18, 1930 is a particularly slow day, that British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) has no news to report & just played Opera music on their airtime.
MR7b TIL the son of film composer John Williams is a lead singer for the band Toto