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TIL that in lieu of money, Toyota donated efficiency to the Food Bank of NYC. Their experts cut wait times in a Harlem soup kitchen from 90 minutes to 18 minutes. In one Brooklyn warehouse, simply changing the size of boxes allowed workers to cut packing time from 3 minutes to just 11 seconds.

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waBM TIL advocating removal of the monarchy in the UK is officially punishable by life imprisonment.
XEV6E TIL that when German intelligence discovered the phrase "Killroy was here" during World War 2 Hitler believed Killroy was the name of a high-level Allied spy
MQaB TIL Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High” McMillan climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and refused to come down from it unless television stations broadcasted his message.
neJLb TIL that during the Great Depression, the Hershey Company marketed Mr. Goodbar as a "tasty lunch" because the peanuts it contained provided added nutritional value. During the 1950s and '60s it was marketed as an "quick energy" bar.
womjE TIL: A key factor of animals belonging to the same species is their ability to produce fertile offspring together. So a Great Dane and a Chihuahua could produce fertile offspring, and a horse and a donkey can have a baby together but their offspring will always be infertile.