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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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LkaKv TIL the average house in Japan depreciates to almost ¥0 after 25 years.
8aWDX TIL Prince was 5’2″, or 157.5 cm tall and weighed 112 pounds, he often wore heels to combat his small size. His grand piano was even modified by shortening the legs so he could reach the pedals while sitting down to play.
eYRL TIL that China has drastically reduced its poverty within the last decade, with the poverty rate dropping from 26% in 2007 to only 4% in 2014
Wkm5X TIL Islam prohibits Muslim men from wearing anything made of gold or silk, only women are allowed to wear those
jNZKQ [TIL] about Sagan's Paradox. Carl Sagan calculated that 1 million space fairing civilizations existed and for one civilization to visit the others, it would require 10,000 launches per year and all the material in 1% of the universe's stars.