That is actually how those ones were named. WD stands for water displacer (or displacement), which is what WD40 does, not a lube but an oil that replaces any water where you spray (which can then act as a lube but it’s not designed to remain there long term). WD40 was the 40th attempt at developing a water displacer and it worked, so they stopped there.
There’s a reason that there is a warning on the Preparation H tube that says “Do not take orally”
They’ll have to give you Preparation A through G.
Makes you wonder what happened to them. Like what happened to WD01 through WD39…
That is actually how those ones were named. WD stands for water displacer (or displacement), which is what WD40 does, not a lube but an oil that replaces any water where you spray (which can then act as a lube but it’s not designed to remain there long term). WD40 was the 40th attempt at developing a water displacer and it worked, so they stopped there.
Well TIL…. cool!
The inventor didn’t think they were useful.
Somewhere at Heinz there’s a filing cabinet with recipes for sauces 1-56 in it, and none of them taste very good.
Heinz 42 opened a small wormhole into another universe.