Peter Sagal
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It really is.
Props to you, Secret Formula.
The Wall Street Journal wrote all about this.
Two amazing things in the story.
First, that the formula for WD-40 is one of the world's most highly guarded industrial secrets.
And second, that it has a formula.
I thought...
It was just a thing that there was.
Yeah, like gold, neon, WD-40, argon, carbon.
You know, it's just a thing.
The Californium and all the other ones.
No.
No.
No, it's an entire mystery what it is.
In fact, the WD turns out to stand for what dis?
The formula is written down in a notebook that is locked in a bank vault in an undisclosed location somewhere in San Diego.
Only a handful of people have seen it over the past 70 years because, unfortunately, the notebook also reveals the name of the inventor's secret crush.
Myrna Loy.
Coming up, it's lightning fill in the blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme.
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