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1LDP TIL in 1915 Ford had a “Sociological Department” tasked with ensuring workers lived/consumed in healthy and rational ways, “to better the financial and moral standing of each employee…to instill courage and a desire for health, happiness and prosperity…to take away fear and worry”
worLP TIL: about the African Free School founded by members of the New York Manumission Society including: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Noah Webster.
8aAGL TIL: In many Celtic traditions, mead, which is an alcoholic drink made from fermented honey, imparts a significant role, and in Celtic lore, its people believed that the drink would bring them immortality. This led them to impart a law that protects the bees from any harm.
KbPw TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.
16Vod TIL that an experiment led to an AI recuiting people to write metal songs for it. It told them its a god and needed to be worshiped.