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TIL that instead of donating money to the New York Food Bank, Toyota asked its engineers to improve its efficiency, cutting waiting times from 90 to 18 minutes. Toyota has also provided 1 million meals for Hurricane Katrina victims.

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m5AR TIL there’s a 170-meter-long trampoline path that cuts through a Russian forest.
9Yxv7 TIL In 2012 a scientific study predicted a 39 inch rise in sea level along the North Carolina coast over the next century. In response, North Carolina lawmakers passed a law banning the use of scientific predictions of sea level rise when considering new developments along the coast.
9g4r TIL Kurt Vonnegut started a graduate degree in anthropology at University of Chicago, but dropped out. Soon after, they mailed him his degree anyway, saying his publication of “Cat’s Cradle” was “halfway decent anthropology” and counted as his dissertation
yrJp TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
WkgV8 TIL 66% of Russians regret the fall of the Soviet Union. Among the reasons was the loss of feeling like they belonged to a "great power". Only a quarter of those surveyed did not regret the fall of the union.