› added 8 years ago

201

TIL that, in order to increase productivity, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos employs a “two pizza” rule for his business meetings: he never has a meeting where two pizzas isn’t enough to feed everyone in attendance.

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

E1vGx TIL there is a dialect of Arabic that isn't naturally spoken anywhere, but which is understandable to all speakers of Arabic. While people from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Syria might not understand each other, they can understand the same news report.
wLEWE TIL that in early 20th century doctors had a biased understanding of human anatomy because of only having access to the cadavers of poor people. In anatomy classes, they were used to the enlarged adrenal glands (which was actually caused by stress from poverty) and thought this was the normal size
0wNaL TIL California is the 6th largest economy in the world behind USA, China, Japan, Germany, UK. It's bigger than India, France, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Canada, Spain, Australia, South Korea, Mexico.
PP1Z TIL that one of Alabama’s most prominent meth dealers in the 2000s was a teacher named “Walter White.” He was arrested the year Breaking Bad began.
awymy TIL In order to keep the secret of "Who shot J.R.?", every actor on Dallas was filmed shooting J.R., including J.R. himself.