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8ekRb TIL gummy worms were invented in 1981 by Trolli, the German candy company.
6E6Y TIL: September 6th, 2012 is the 20th anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series
nkkG 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.
7rwZO TIL that during the great depression, people used to pull cars with horses because they couldn't afford gas
RRjj TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”