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TIL that the "4 Ps" of marketing,Product, Price, Place, and Promotion,were first proposed by E. Jerome McCarthy in 1960, and they became the foundation of the modern marketing mix.

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eprRE TIL that not all clumps of twigs and leaves in trees are bird nests — some are actually squirrel nests called "dreys."
e0KOb TIL that the Golden Records on the Voyager probes includes copyrighted material that aliens will be able to access and use completely for free, but we can't.
loJVr TIL Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps (fake streets, towns) so they can tell when someone copies them. They are called map traps.
yQnXa TIL only 2% of Ford buyers took the $27 seat belt option, in 1956. And in the 80's, less than 15% of Americans said they used seat belts and a Gallup poll showed that 65% of Americans opposed mandatory belt laws. Now "more than 90% buckle up regularly".
w7KP TIL Kim Jong-il, Great Leader and film-lover, had South Korea’s most famous actress and her director husband kidnapped and held hostage for eight years in order to force them to make movies he liked.