› added 1 year ago

116

TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904

Read more intellectualventures.com

via reddit.com

ZDG4 TIL Unfrosted Pop-tarts have more calories than frosted Pop-tarts
l7OZ5 TIL that when Fox Sports president David Hill introduced a score bug as part of its NFL coverage, he received a death threat from an irate viewer, with a specific emphasis on him being a "foreigner"
LkNx9 TIL: Most data scientists spend only 20 percent of their time on actual data analysis and 80 percent of their time finding, cleaning, and reorganizing huge amounts of data
0weZy TIL Waylon Jennings left the recording of "We Are the World" because of a dispute over lyrics that were to be sung in Swahili. The lyrics were later dropped after Stevie Wonder pointed out that Ethiopians did not speak Swahili.
8e6d8 TIL about Bogdan Zerajic, whose failed assassination attempt inspired Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand two years later, sending the world into World War 1.