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TIL: That 'Waze' is a homophone of 'ways'; as it figures of ways through traffic.

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naL9 TIL in 1750 a fully automated scale-model clockwork town was built in Austria, with 200 moving figures all replicating the activities of various townspeople - and it’s still working today, 260 years later!
P8JV TIL Wasabi kills e-coli and cancerous cells in the human body
E1XWX TIL Daniel Day-Lewis listened to Eminem's 'The Way I Am' every morning at 5AM to prepare for his role 'Gangs of New York' in 2002. He's also a big fan of Snoop Dogg.
5Y1JB TIL that, while there have been reports of python snakes killing people since the early 20th century, the first documented case of a python eating a human happened in 2017.
V6LG TIL in 2008 Tropicana changed its logo from an orange with a straw in it to a glass of orange juice. Their sales dropped 20% in one month so they went back to the original.