› added 7 years ago

413

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

Read more hbr.org

via ift.tt

YAeZ TIL the original US Constitution set no term limits on the President. George Washington voluntarily retired from office after two terms, establishing an informal two-term limit. This custom lasted for nearly 150 years until FDR broke the tradition.
nZ6Y TIL that dolphins, like humans cannot drink seawater and the only source of liquid they consume is from the food they eat.
rN7Kx TIL that in 1999 Queen's drummer Roger Taylor became just the second living, non-royal to appear on a British stamp when he was pictured in the background of a Freddie Mercury stamp
4bMX TIL Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”
OGno6 TIL that Harper Goff designed much of the original Disneyland, sets for classic films (Casablanca, Captain Blood, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), and the submarines in Fantastic Voyage and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo’s baroque Nautilus helped inspire the Steampunk movement.