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TIL about the theory of "the wisdom of crowds", where the median will be close, but the mean answer of a crowd of people will be closer to the correct answer.

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X1Lj TIL that University of Montreal researchers were unable to study the differences between men who watch porn with those who don’t since they couldn’t find a single man who doesn’t
ADAEa TIL a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers in 2008. While other employees attempted to help him, the shoppers were unconcerned with the victim's fate and refused to halt their stampede, complaining that they were not willing to wait in the cold any longer.
m1vWR TIL that in 2015 the European Commission paid 360 000€ for a report to study how much piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted goods. The 300-page report concluded that piracy has no statistical effect on the sales and was quietly buried.
ZpynG TIL that the Hundred Years’ War was actually a 116 year war fought over three distinct periods.
JE6l TIL that in 1755, Oxford University burned a taxidermied Dodo bird, unaware that it was the last complete specimen in the world.