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TIL that the Henry Ford Company eventually became Cadillac where a man named Jack Taylor worked. He made renting a vehicle easy and eventually founded Enterprise Ren-A-Car. A business named after the Aircraft Carrier he was stationed on.

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4Ew TIL on July 30, 1978 a city in Japan decided to switch which side of the road they drove on. It took 8 hours to turn all the traffic signs around, and cost $150 million to do the entire conversion.
4wnb TIL Chinese insurance companies now offer insurance to protect individuals from being sued by elderly people they tried to help
VQ0m Today I learned of the “tiny house movement” where single people and couples live in houses as small as 120 sq. feet to have a smaller environmental impact on the world and to use money saved on other things…
kOmk4 TIL The most expensive collection of Pokemon cards is valued at over $10 million, by Gary Haase, a 67-yr old father of 3 from Las Vegas
ADJN4 TIL Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls was one of the first members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve in WW2, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant before being honorably discharged.