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TIL A person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develope a "joke addiction", a compulsive need to constantly make jokes

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ANGY7 TIL the King Cobra is not a cobra. It is the sole species of its genus and happens to look a lot like a cobra.
Vyrk TIL Instead of donating money to the New York Food Bank, Toyota offered “kaizen”, a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement”. Toyota sent its engineers to the soup kitchen and reduced wait time from 90 to 18 minutes.
xVBmg TIL: there is an engineering marvel in Norway. One huge platform stand on just one concrete column in the sea with 251 meters height! I just wonder how they built it till I watched this documentary about it.
DQB1e TIL In 1925 a Norwegian invented special cheese slicer called Ostehøvel. It was so controversial that many people created bins captioned "Throw your cheese slicer here!"
R7joj TIL Carlos Alhinho, a Portuguese professional soccer player and manager was killed when he opened the doors on the elevator on the sixth floor of his hotel in Benguela. He stepped in and found that the carriage was not there, but the ground floor. He fell down five floors onto the top of the cabin.