Did you know …
That Henry Ford got the idea for the innovative Model T production line after watching two june bugs interact? It’s true!
Ford was never certain exactly what the june bugs were doing, but nonetheless found them “infinitely inspiring”; he wrote, “whether they were fighting, copulating, or simply engaged in vigorous mutual cannibalism, it was the most intimate and efficient act I have ever seen.”
To understand how this observation inspired assembly line automobile manufacturing, you have to take into consideration that Ford was probably out of his mind on morphine at the time (he usually was), and that the june bugs themselves were likely hallucinations. How they appeared or what they may have said to him is anyone’s guess, although the vision also inspired him to cover his chest and back in tattooed birth and death dates for his entire family (many of whom had not yet died). That could be a clue.
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