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TIL that to lower the cost of the car and make it more affordable to Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management”, resulting in a assembly line that reduced the time for car manufacturing, from 12 hours to 93 minutes

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p8vPe TIL that Mike Patton of the band Faith No More has the widest vocal range in popular music with a slightly larger than 6 Octave range.
LQAop TIL William Wesley Peters was the son-in-law of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Stalin
j6VlR TIL In 1981, Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II, four times in the abdomen during a parade. Despite being critically wounded, the Pope recovered and forgave Ali. He was pardoned in 2000 at the Pope's request. He later converted to Christianity in prison, leaving flowers on the Pope's tomb in 2014.
0wkgM TIL Louis Armstrong worked for a Jewish family as a child, who eventually took him in and saw him as their own son after his father left the family.
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