› added 10 years ago

95

TIL Henry Ford reduced the workday to 8 hours so he could add a third shift.

Read more corporate.ford.com

via reddit.com

dpl9 TIL that in 1981 IBM asked Microsoft for a 16-bit operating software. Microsoft didn’t have one and didn’t want to build one, so they spent $75,000 on someone else’s software, tinkered with it a bit and MS-DOS was born.
8Zb8 TIL Scotch Tape was named that because scotch used to mean ‘cheap’ and since it wasn’t as sticky as normal tape, someone asked the inventor why he’d gone 'scotch’ on the adhesive.
REl4 TIL A man in Calgary rescued a baby from a dumpster and later found out he was the father
m1JYy TIL: In 2018, the Japanese city of Setouchi crowdfunded 500 million yen to bring the 800~ year old sword of warlord Uesugi Kenshin back using the furusato nozei (hometown tax donation system). The sword is recognized as a national treasure of Japan.
AxP7 TIL The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States from 5 states during the civil war used the word slave or a variant over 80 times. It also referred to the north as “non-slave-holding States”.