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TIL the “W-D” in WD-40 stands for Water Displacement.

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EBg7 TIL Dimebag Darrell once asked Eddie Van Halen for a copy of his guitar “Bumblebee” from the cover of Van Halen II. Eddie said yes but forgot, but after Dimebag was killed he turned up at the viewing with the original and it is now buried with him.
woNJE TIL about Quantum Chess, where pieces exist in superposition, move unpredictably, and become entangled! It combines chess with quantum mechanics, making strategy more about probabilities. Even Paul Rudd played it vs. Stephen Hawking!
woMLE TIL Albert Henry Woolson outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran.
0d8V5 TIL in 2014 a Florida mom started a petition asking Toys R Us to stop selling Breaking Bad action figures. In response, Bryan Cranston, the actor who played Walter White, tweeted "I'm so mad. I am burning my Florida mom action figure in protest." The Breaking Bad action figures ended up being pulled
Zp9w4 TIL Argentina briefly occupied California