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TIL In 2013 In lieu of Money, Toyota helped Food Bank-which is the countries largest anti-hunger charity-by improving the system at Food Bank and cut down the wait time for dinner to 18 minutes from as long as 90. Toyota used "Kaizen" (continuous improvement) instead of just giving a check.

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9YN9X TIL that more Constitutional amendments have been proposed to reform or eliminate the Electoral College than on any other subject.
LkBVV TIL that 2 current countries share the same national anthem as the U.K. (Liechtenstein and Norway which has it as the royal anthem), and many countries had it as their anthem before the U.K. did
yvNJ TIL that the Big Ben is the name of the largest of the five bells which hang within the clock and not the name of the landmark clock.
YpwGr TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”
RKv4 TIL: the incidence of psychopathy is 4 times the amount in CEO’s as the regular population.