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Regular oil or grease will do a vastly better job than WD-40 in just about every use they've listed, and cost a fraction the price. In fact you can make something that works vastly better than WD-40 for a fraction the price:

https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/2012/08/14/how_to_make_penetrating_oil.html

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6064/wd-40-vs-the-world-of-lubricants/

Nothing worse than people who use WD-40 on everything... Yes, WD-40 *did* stop that $200 motor from squeaking... so it has been *quietly* wearing down the bearing and now needs to be replaced entirely, all because you didn't use the proper (and much cheaper) lubricant.
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"Chains" being the key word. A ridiculous number of sandwich shops are just simply local, or are small chains with less than 100 locations. Quite a few of them around here, so they don't get counted in the map at all.

Subway is clearly the main franchise, but I really can't imagine why. They've been the one with the lowest-grade ingredients since the start...
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Nobody can "see through" an IPSec VPN, unless you've got a terribly poor pass-phrase. Of course China has its own certificate authority, so they could be masquerading as your end-point (if you aren't watching the details closely) and doing man-in-the-middle. Of course you can revoke certain CAs or use only self-signed certs to protect against that.

But yes, the site still works for me, here in the US.
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Colder temperatures dull your sense of taste. That's the reason why soft-serve ice cream tastes so much better than very cold ice cream. It's also why completely melted ice cream tastes TOO SWEET to drink. I expect refrigerating milk chocolate will have mostly negative effects on its taste, while dark chocolate may benefit from tasting less bitter, unless you let it warm-up again before eating.
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British electrical wiring gives me nightmares. Those gigantic plugs that are incompatible with the rest of the world, all have fuses in them. Why? Because the whole house is basically on one single "ring" circuit with no individual breakers... This supposedly dates back to the war, when copper was in extremely short supply, but that's no excuse not to update to decent modern designs, now. And the electric shaver plug in the bathroom is similar to a Euro-plug, but only guaranteed to supply an amp. You might start a fire if you try to run a hair dryer off of it.

And yes, those tiny washer/drier combos are at least TWICE as expensive as buying a separate and full-sized washer & dryer, don't clean or dry as well, etc. The only reason for it seems to be not needing to run a dryer vent outside (which isn't very difficult at all). When lacking floor-space, washer & driers can simply be stacked on top of each other, fitting in the smallest closets without trouble.
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