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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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N76k8 TIL about Maj. Walter Reed (Walter Reed Medical Center is named for him) who was a major influence in the fields of epidemiology and bio-medicine. With a fellow doctor from Cuba he discovered that yellow fever was transmitted via mosquitoes and not human to human transmission saving countless lives.
nJpo TIL that the old 50% divorce rate in America was never true. It was never even close. It’s actually getting closer to 25%.
N7oO8 TIL that Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, ...) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.
ANYMo TIL Honeybees use a waggle dance to tell others where to find food. The distance other bees must travel to the food source relates to the length of time it takes the bee to fly in one full circuit. The angle at which the bee flies in relation to the sun shows the direction of the food source.
E1L7 TIL on August 12, 1944, the German SS entered the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and killed every living thing, including 110 children (the youngest being only 20 days old) and 8 pregnant women, by machine gun and hand grenade. The massacre took 3 hours. Then they set the corpses on fire.