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TIL Nissan was losing money for 8 straight years until Carlos Ghosn made it profitable in just 3—after vowing at the Tokyo Auto Show that the board would resign if he failed.

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xVeK0 TIL that there are 7000 languages, and your cognitive language can vastly affect your skills as a human. For instance, some African languages use the direction they are heading (NSEW) as “hello” and literally have no word for left or right. These people stay oriented exponentially better than others
epKpk TIL of all the volcanoes on earth, on average one erupts every week
vP4Px TIL Max Brooks is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and “his books have inspired the U.S. military to examine how they may respond to potential crises in the future”.
4kMXa TIL Cows are actually really good swimmers and in Ireland they’re taken by boat to graze on offshore islands!
8eaeK TIL English is not an official language of New Zealand despite it being spoken by 90% of the population.The two official languages are Te reo Māori and NZ sign language.