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TIL the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”, where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way

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VeAD TIL the Paraguayan War reduced Paraguay’s population from 525,000 to 221,000, of which only 28,000 were male
9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
LkEx9 Til that in 2006 the U.N.E.P. launched a massive campaign to plant a billion trees. Many countries took up the challenge with China and India planting over 2 billion.
9wvAp TIL that Halle Berry accepted her Razzie award for Catwoman by bringing her Oscar onstage and doing a parody of her emotional academy award acceptance speech.
1a178 TIL that when cyber criminals made off with $81m (and almost got away with $1bn), Bangladesh Bank was using second-hand switches worth $10 and had no firewalls in place.