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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.

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yQv78 TIL the phrase "Let the cat out of the bag" originated in the late middle ages. Con artists would put a cat in a bag but say it was a piglet, it was normal for buyers to agree on a price without looking inside first. This later gave rise to laws giving rights to inspect a product before purchase.
kJ8kB TIL that Air Tahiti Nui Flight 64 holds the record as the world's longest domestic flight. The flight was between Papeete in French Polynesia and Paris (15,715 km/9,765 mi) taking 16h20. The current longest domestic flight is AF647 between Saint-Denis, Réunion and Paris (9,349 km/5,809 mi/11h40)
mxLOY TIL Alfred Nobel considered naming dynamite "Nobel's Safety Powder"
nW6Zd TIL that in AFL football the longest kick in history was 98 metres (107 yards) kicked by Albert Thurgood. It’s apparently hotly debated though with Fred Fanning allegedly kicked 105.5 metres (116 yards). This all happened before 1950!
QgAp TIL in 1992, a mentally retarded man was executed, after having saved the dessert from his last meal for later.