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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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gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.
VOK8 TIL Japanese emperor Akihito is a world class expert on goby fish. He has published 38 peer-reviewed scientific studies on the topic.
Oov51 TIL the boardgame, Clue (North America), is actually called Cluedo in much of the rest of the world!
ppeA TIL that despite being a quarter of a million words long, Melville managed to use a unique word (a word that’s only used once in the novel) per every 12 words in Moby Dick.
1a9OO TIL that Chadwick Boseman gave a portion of his own salary for the movie ‘21 Bridges' to co-star Sienna Miller when the studio refused to match her demands.