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TIL that Intel was going to be called Moore Noyce but it was scrapped because it sounded too close to more noise

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xVWY5 TIL of the Five Whys method, invented by Sakichi Toyoda (b. 1867, d. 1930, founder of Toyota industries) as a method of working through symptoms until a root cause is discovered by asking "Why?" five times.
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