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TIL that Toyota Motor Co was originally named after it's founder Toyoda, but the name was changed to Toyota because it sounds better and in Japanese characters it is 8 strokes, a lucky number, versus the 10 strokes for Toyoda. (Obviously in Japanese, not anglicized spelling)

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