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TIL that in 1984 the French planted a bomb in London to test British security.

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PjKV TIL: Instead of donating money to a New York Food Bank, Toyota offered ‘kaizen’; a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement”. Toyota’s engineers applied kaizen to the soup kitchen, reducing the average wait time from 90 to 18 minutes.
rNn4 TIL In September 1987, citizens in Rio De Janeiro discovered 22 tons worth of sealed 2-pound cans of marijuana washed ashore along their beaches after suspected drug smugglers ditched their cargo. Out of those cans, only 20 were ever turned into the police.
P1ERw TIL The average cost per barrel of oil in the 727 million barrel Strategic Reserve is $29.70
78r9x TIL the novel "Dr. Awkward & Olson in Oslo" by Lawrence Levine is a 31,954 word long palindrome.
ro0M TIL Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, among other films does not use a cell phone or an e-mail because he’s just “not interested”, it gives him “time to think”, and he also prohibits them on the set of a movie