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TIL The Nazis were the first to convincingly link smoking to lung cancer and first coined the phrase passive smoking.

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6PZw TIL a California Gang member was arrested for driving with an expired license when Police noticed his chest tattoo depicted a liquor store robery and murder that had gone unsolved. After questioning he confessed and was convicted of the crime
nkkG 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.
QJJB9 Next time: Slow and steady.
e0Zvk TIL comedy writers Leonard Stern and Roger Price had an idea for a word game but didn't know what to call it. One day they overheard an actor saying he wanted to "Ad-Lib" an interview in which his agent called him "mad" for doing it. Stern and Price used that chat to call their creation Mad Libs.
Z8xAD TIL the last words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “I’m bored with it all.” Spoken after suffering a stroke at age 90.