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Today I learned that WD-40 stands for Water Displacing oil number 40!

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9wZyX TIL of the Y2k38 Problem. Similar in nature to the Y2K bug, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to process the date and time may not be able to cope with the time change and could revert to the year 1901.
R8k4 TIL that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a soundwave, light is produced, and no body knows why, this phenomenon is called Sonoluminescence
7ALx TIL that the Harry Patch was the last Tommy to survive the horror of the trenches of WWI. He died aged 111 in 2009. He never forgot those lost and always made sure to remember lost Germans as well as Allied troops.
OGPbL TIL Pilates was invented by Joseph Pilates in a WW1 while in an Internment Camp
5xvk TIL in Selina Kyle (Catwoman)’s debut (Batman #1, 1940), Batman’s first words to her were “QUIET OR PAPA SPANK!”