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TIL that the Chicago Daily Tribune was so sure in Thomas E. Dewey winning the 1948 presidential election, they printed the next day edition with an incorrect headline "Dewey Defeats Truman".

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RKw4 TIL that in 2012, researchers found that people who watch Fox News were less informed than people who didn’t watch news at all
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