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TIL WD-40 is not patented, to avoid disclosing its full ingredients, making it harder to copy.

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6EODm TIL the inventor of K-Cups regrets the idea. Why? Because the K-Cups are bad for the environment -- they are disposable and not recyclable.
YpJvG TIL that Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence explicitly condemned slavery. The Continental Congress insisted on removing these passages before the document was published.
9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.
grx08 TIL While other primates are furry, human skin is exposed to the elements. It’s not that we’re ‘naked’ – our hair is just really short over much of our bodies. In the warm places where our ancestors lived, evaporation of sweat from exposed skin was a great benefit in cooling our entire bodies.
GA7ZJ TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989