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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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R7AOl TIL that we use only one nostril at a time and switch usage throughout the day.
4Npg TIL that in 1952 Albert Einstein was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel. He declined, saying that as a scientist trained to deal with objective facts, he lacked the aptitude and experience to deal with people.
R79m7 TIL a bit of composite material could greatly inhibit the spread of germs among air travelers, who come in contact with some 3 billion others annually.
LklEQ TIL that during WW2, the Soviet Union trained dogs to blow up German tanks. Their usage was later discontinued, as the dogs tended to ran back to the familiar smell of Soviet soldiers and tanks, killing them instead.
awp9o TIL Coca-Cola sales agents are not allowed to give anyone a better deal on Coke than McDonald's, as a matter of company policy