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TIL Henry Ford didn’t decide to pay his workers $5 per day so they could afford his cars, but to combat massive turnover: In 1913, he hired 52,000 workers and kept 14,000

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R7ywQ TIL: Water striders (pond skaters) are not just found in freshwater, but are the only insects that have successfully adapted to the open ocean. Increased floating plastics, has given ocean going pond skaters more nesting surface which could cause a disruption to the oceanic food chain.
jWDX TIL that in 1884, halfway through the 10 year plan to produce an up to date English dictionary, the team had only reached the word ‘Ant’ The final volume was published 49 years after they started.
jNJZM TIL Ferdinand Foch (Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWI) said of the Treaty of Versailles : "This is not a peace treaty. This is an armistice for twenty years." World War II started 20 years and 64 days later.
8eQYb TIL the original script for Happy Feet framed it as a much darker PG-13 movie, with uses of "Shit", acknowledgement of penguins having high mortality rates from predation and starvation, anti-religion/tradition undertones, and an appearance of godlike alien penguins in the ending.
QMmE TIL the Rwandan Parliament is the only one in the world with a female majority.