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TIL that WD-40 stands for "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"

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ANO7x TIL there’s a house in NY that is legally haunted “and seller must inform the purchaser of the haunting.”
95ym TIL Abraham Lincoln dressed up as a Scottish immigrant in order to escape an assassination attempt on his way into Washington for his Inauguration.
kJwa1 TIL that the T.V. show Archer had to re-name the characters' employer. At the start of the series the characters worked for "the International Secret Intelligence Service" (prominently called I.S.I.S. for short). When the Iraq occupation ended real world events gave the name an unwanted connotation.
awvOo TIL: The phrase 'Gung ho' was originally derived from a Chinese phrase meaning, 'Work Together.' When Marine advisers were sent to aid the Chinese Nationalist Army during WWII, the phrase wormed it's way into Marine lingo, and is still commonly used today.
gMldb TIL American History X director Tony Kaye was so dissatisfied with the final cut of the film he spent $100,000 of his own money to take out 35 full-page ads in the Hollywood trade press denouncing Norton and the producer, using quotations from a variety of people from John Lennon to Abraham Lincoln.